[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] libcairo in maemo

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

On 5/14/06, Hans J. Koch <koch at hjk-az.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to write an application that uses libcairo. To make it clearer, I
> want to use libcairo directly, I don't need GTK with libcairo support!
>
> Did anybody compile libcairo for the 770?
> Is it possible? Any other hints?

Cairo can be compiled in the SDK quite well. It just doesn't perform
all that well on the device. I tested it a bit some time ago, and
didn't get too engouraging results. My benchmarking app was not too
optimized though, and I now am pretty sure it didn't relfect the
actual Cairo performance so I think it's worth a shot to try it.
Specially since the latest Cairo should perform much better than the
one I tested it with.

It all depends how performance-critical your app is really.

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Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi
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