Re: [directfb-dev] Rebuilding directfb gdk/gtk

[Mike Emmel <mike emmel gmail com>]

Well it seems the Gnome people are becoming concerned about the
situation also so I think we will finally get some timelines for tags
on 2.8.

All I can say is hang in there for a bit longer. Once they start tagging CVS 
I should be able to produce a usable port. I'm assuming they will tag
cairo also :)

Mike

On 6/7/05, Mike Emmel <mike emmel gmail com> wrote:
> pangocairo is in the latest pango CVS.  Its as the name suggest pango
> using the cairo backend.  I'm working on the port I've had to back off
> till after I finish a demo for java one which is only a few more weeks
> then I'll be back on the port I promise :)
> 
> The current problem is that cariodfb is terribly out of date and I
> need to upgrade it. I am working on it as I get a chance. I tried to
> integrate the DirectFB locking into cairo and now I don't think thats
> a good idea. Backing it out will simply things quite a bit. This means
> that as long as your using a Cairo referance the surface is locked to
> you dispose. Now I think thats the right thing to do. That will also
> fix a lot of artifacts caused by the fact I broke a lot of the locking
> semantics adding cairo support.
> 
> I'll work on the cairo work this week I have time to do that, if its
> working then the actual gdk code should be fairly easy to get working.
> 
> You should go ahead and work on the 2.8 or current CVS tree cairo adds
> support for a lot of graphics ops missing from the core directfb
> framework. As a side effect it allows gdk run quite well on simpler
> systems such ad DirectFB. On that note the last gtk cvs  tag was
> GTK_2_6_7 which is very old I tried to find out about when the next
> tag was to no avial. If you know someone who is willing to let the
> world know when the first 2_8 tag will be made that would be
> fantastic. If they tag it its a LOT easier for me to get the directfb
> port into a more usable state.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On 6/7/05, Davide Viti <zinosat tiscali it> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I spent the last few days trying to rebuild a set of libraries that
> > could be used to test the graphical frontend for the Debian
> > installer. The gtk+-directfb-2.0.9-2 is rather outdated and it would
> > be interesting to see how things behave with more recent snapshots of
> > the libs.
> >
> > ATM my goal is to rebuild what could be named gtk+-directfb-2.6.7-1
> > Here's the list of components I've downloaded:
> >
> > DirectFB-2005-06-06-04-25-11-UTC.tar.gz
> > cairodfb-2005-06-07-04-25-28-UTC.tar.gz
> > glib-2.6.0.tar.gz
> > pango-1.8.1.tar.gz
> >
> > All of them compiled fine.
> > I've then downloaded gdk-directfb-2005-06-07-04-25-32-UTC and
> > merged it with gtk+-2.6.7, struggled alot but no success.
> > some of the changes contained in gtk-directfb.patch
> > seemed not to have sense against gtk+-2.6.7:
> >
> > =======
> > RCS file: /cvs/gnome/gtk+/configure.in,v
> > retrieving revision 1.433
> > diff -u -w -r1.433 configure.in
> > --- configure.in        27 Mar 2005 19:20:51 -0000      1.433
> > +++ configure.in        30 Mar 2005 15:48:02 -0000
> > ...
> > @@ -1413,6 +1414,8 @@
> >          PANGO_PACKAGES="pangowin32 pangocairo"
> >  elif test "x$gdktarget" = "xlinux-fb"; then
> >          PANGO_PACKAGES="pangoft2 pangocairo"
> > +elif test "x$gdktarget" = "xdirectfb"; then
> > +        PANGO_PACKAGES="directfb pango pangocairo"
> >  else
> >          PANGO_PACKAGES="pango pangocairo"
> >  fi
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > the original configure.in does not mention pangocairo anywhere.
> > This makes me think I should probably use something older before
> > experimenting with 2.6.7.
> > So I checked out an older version of gtk+ (2.2) but i'm not sure this
> > is the right direction.
> >
> > could anybody please give some hints?
> > could anybody please list the libraries needed and a reasonable
> > version number for each of them?
> > I'm running Debian Sarge... hopefully the tools should be not outdated
> > many thanx in advance
> >
> > Davide
> >
> >
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