nielx ([info]nielx) wrote in [info]bezilla,
@ 2007-12-03 01:25:00
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Buidling Cairo
Out of sheer boredom (and a bit of interest), I tried building cairo. After satisfying the dependencies (freetype, fontconfig and libpixman), and fixing some small things, Cairo 1.5.2 builds, but does not link.

Update: Fixed. It was because the Cairo headers weren't imported as C-headers. Putting up an extern "C" guard fixed it.

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[info]tqh
2007-12-03 03:44 pm UTC (link)
Did you follow my wiki-guide or did it on your own? I havn't built Cairo in a long time, so it would be nice to know if something changed.

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[info]nielx
2007-12-04 04:42 pm UTC (link)
I pretty performed the steps, but I did not use that document to the letter, as I already had most of the dependencies in one form or another. What changed is, that Cairo 1.5.2 needs a build fix, and the 'libpixman' stuff, which was once a part of Cairo, is now an external library.

I don't really now where to go from here. You know, I guess the best thing would be to post a bounty request on Haikuware.com. That way, you'll immediately find out how much interest there is in a Firefox 3 port. You know, everybody got real excited about the Webkit port, but it's miles away from being usable. Firefox 3 has the advantage that most of the porting work is done already, and it has been proven to work (to an extend).

Working for a bounty might provide for an extra stimulance.

I'm not a real coder (I tend to bluff my way through the process), so I don't know if you would be stimulated by a financial impulse. Nevertheless, I would consider it a good option for you guys (tqh, fyysik and tigerdog), you've been maintaining the only modern browser for BeOS (and probably Haiku too, for a while).

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Жизнь без компа
(Anonymous)
2007-12-06 12:01 am UTC (link)
Привет всем, млин тут комп не давно сломался и остался я без компа и инета аж на целых 5 дней! Епт такой тошняк был пока не починил, ведь есть все таки зависимость от компьютора как ни крути. Помню раньше не было и не надо )). А еще игры это вообще жесть затягивает. Не давно видел объявление на ряду с лечением табакокурения, алкогализма, в третей строчки было лечение от ИГРОМАНИИ. Во как! Докатились!
Зависимость или свобода конечно все зависит от нас.

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