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| author | Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com> | 2014-09-17 20:25:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com> | 2014-09-17 20:25:37 -0700 |
| commit | 33a54e7c204c4bb7fb0f1f2844608a78ea317db4 (patch) | |
| tree | e5aba5335ad5ef4893c2c939c8aaba5b0010bb0e | |
| parent | d1fa4d44fe6b70eba6d5f620c5c4a6c122cc7fc8 (diff) | |
README: Update required dependencies
Also adds mention of the skia backend.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 30 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -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) @@ -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 |