[Lazarus] Cairo library usage

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> * Does it come standard with X11?  I read some docs on the net (dated
> 2000) that Cairo was an idea for a new graphics subsystem in X Windows
> to take advantage of newer video cards emerging in the market. Did
> that idea materialize? Is Cairo now considered standard with X11 like
> Xft?
>
>   

No. Cairo is one component of the gtk stack although it can be used 
independently of gtk. The only dependency is libpng AFAIK.


> * How is it's support on Windows or Mac OS X?
>   

Windows is marked as supported platform (in fact, most of my dev with 
cairo is done in windows). Starting with 1.6 Mac OSX/Quartz is marked as 
supported. As a side note, Firefox 3 uses cairo to render all stuff in 
all platforms (this is one of the reasons to the speedup in page loading).

Luiz