Re: [Gnash-dev] [PATCH] Initial implementation of a cairo renderer

[Paul Smedley]

Hi All,

Bastiaan Jacques wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:45, Timothy Lee wrote:
> >     m_texture_id = (unsigned int)cairo_pattern_create_for_surface(m_image);
>
> This is a cast from a pointer to 32-bit integer, which is 64-bit unsafe. I've 
> added an m_pattern member to replace m_texture_id.
>
> I've added a configure option --enable-renderer=[renderer], where renderer is 
> either opengl or cairo (the default is still opengl).
>
> This work increases the importance of a cleanup of gnash.cpp (which is already 
> underway in the form of a frontend library) - when the cairo backend is 
> enabled, currently two windows are created. Fixing that is nontrivial due to 
> the goop in gnash.cpp.
I got Gnash mostly compiling on OS/2 - however the Cairo backend depends 
on cairo-xlib.h which isn't available on OS/2 as OS/2 doesn't use X.

Is there a more platform independent way of implementing a Cairo backend?

Cheers,

Paul.