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authormh0310.choi <mh0310.choi@samsung.com>2015-07-28 10:46:57 +0900
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@@ -67,29 +67,31 @@ backends. Further, the supported backends can be divided into the
"platform" backends which depend on some underlying platform-specific
system, (such as the X Window System or some other window system).
-As an example, for a standard Linux build, (with image, png, pdf,
-PostScript, svg, and xlib surface backends, and the freetype font
-backend), the following sample commands will install necessary
-dependencies:
+As an example, for a standard Linux build similar to what's shipped by
+your distro, (with image, png, pdf, PostScript, svg, and xlib surface
+backends, and the freetype font backend), the following sample commands
+will install necessary dependencies:
Debian (and similar):
- apt-get install libpng12-dev libz-dev libxrender-dev libfontconfig1-dev
+ apt-get build-dep cairo
Fedora (and similar):
yum install libpng-devel zlib-devel libXrender-devel fontconfig-devel
-(Those commands intentionally don't install pixman from a distribution
-package since if you're manually compiling cairo, then you likely want
-to grab pixman from the same place at the same time and compile it as
-well.)
+Technically you probably don't need pixman from the distribution since
+if you're manually compiling Cairo you probably want an updated pixman
+as well. However, if you follow the default settings and install pixman
+to /usr/local, your Cairo build should properly use it in preference to
+the system pixman.
+
Supported, "standard" surface backends
------------------------------------
image backend (required)
------------------------
- pixman >= 0.20.2 http://cairographics.org/releases
+ pixman >= 0.30.0 http://cairographics.org/releases
png support (can be left out if desired, but many
----------- applications expect it to be present)
@@ -119,7 +121,7 @@ Supported, "platform" surface backends
quartz backend
--------------
- MacOS X >= 10.4 with Xcode >= 2.4
+ MacOS X >= 10.5 with Xcode >= 3.0
win32 backend
-------------
@@ -179,10 +181,18 @@ Experimental surface backends
packages and developer dependencies are available at Netlabs:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/cairo
+ skia backend
+ ------------
+ Requires the skia library as of June 2014. Since skia is not
+ API stable, building against newer (or older) versions of skia
+ will probably fail.
+
+
Compiling
=========
See the INSTALL document for build instructions.
+
History
=======
Cairo was originally developed by Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> and