[Mono-devel-list] Building Mono from cvs on Windows

[Bernie Solomon]

But Render is a X server extension and at least both the
Solaris and the HPUX server do not implement it (at
least the ones I have access to). Now I don't know
what ends up depending on the features of 
System.Drawing that use this but at first glance 
it doesn't look straightforward to get going elsewhere.
Maybe things are reasonably functional without it
(assuming the build issues are resolved).

Bernie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miguel de Icaza" <miguel at ximian.com>
To: "Bernie Solomon" <bernard at ugsolutions.com>
Cc: <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 3:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Building Mono from cvs on Windows


> Hello,
> 
> > These dependencies are also problematic on other platforms. I
> > can't see cairo working on HPUX for example... indeed is it
> > tied to XFree86 only? Also I actually presume if anyone
> > is using Windows they wouldn't want an X based version.
> > 
> > The immediate problem is the build system for the runtime doesn't
> > easily support building subsets of libraries (without hacking
> > the Makefiles).
> 
> Cairo should work without XFree86, you just need the Render and Xrender
> packages to build it.
> 
> Cairo will also support Windows rendering (in fact, using GDI+ to do
> part of the work).
> 
> We would like to know of problems people might be experiencing with
> this, to tune the setup until its right.
> 
> > The next level problem is of course this precludes various modules
> > running on a bunch of platforms which may or may not matter to you.
>