Hi Werner, ah! Thanks for reminding me - my search keywords were something like: "cairo windows library". So I need to install GTK+ to get convenient access to the cairo libraries ... hm.
Regards, Arjen On 2009-04-22 09:35, Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Arjen, > > On 22.04.2009, at 09:08, Arjen Markus wrote: > >> On 2009-04-22 09:01, Andrew Ross wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm with Geoffrey and Maurice on the gd driver. I still use it on >>> several >>> (old and new) systems. Yes, I could switch to cairo / qt on some of >>> those >>> systems, but not all and there is an inertia to stick with the driver >>> you >>> know. Plus the gd has quite small dependencies compared to the other >>> two. >>> For small / embedded systems this could be a big advantage. Set the >>> option >>> to off by default if you like, but don't disable it completely. At least >>> if it is still configurable and in the test suite we'll know if we >>> accidentally break things. >>> >> >> I made a quick survey to see whether cairo is an option under >> Windows XP. Nothing conclusive sofar, but I only found relatively >> obscure links to Windows versions of libcairo. > > GTK is available for Windows for some time now (and somehow supported): > http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html . Cairo/Pango is available > there as well. I wrote earlier a message to the list with instructions > to enable the cairo drivers on Windows: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01439.html > > > (Still need to add the instructions to the wiki ;). > > Regards, > Werner > >> >> Given that the Windows culture is more one of "let us get new furniture" >> than "let us get new tools and build a new sofa and what about that nice >> design for a dinner table, get me the saw and hammer", I would prefer >> the GD library to cairo for Windows. >> >> I need to have a closer look at the availability of the library (or >> libraries) in a ready-to-use form, but I agree with Andrew, Maurice and >> Geoffrey: it is too early. >> >> Regards, >> >> Arjen >> >> >> Delft Hydraulics, GeoDelft, the Subsurface and Groundwater unit of TNO >> and parts of Rijkswaterstaat have joined forces in a new independent >> institute for delta technology, Deltares. 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