Re: Is Cairo a _dependency_ to build Gtk+2 on the Mac?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 17:05 +0100, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> While reading this document: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html
> 
> I saw that it lists Cairo as a dependency for building Gtk+ on UNIX systems. But later
> on in the same document it describes building and testing Gtk+. Here Cairo is not mentioned.
> It says;
>  
> 	"Then build and install the GTK+ libraries in the order: GLib, Pango, ATK, then GTK+. 
> 	For each library, follow the steps of configure, make, make install mentioned above. 
> 	If you're lucky, this will all go smoothly, and you'll be ready to start compiling your own 
> 	GTK+ applications. You can test your GTK+ installation by running the gtk-demo program that 
> 	GTK+ installs."
> 
> I am confused - is Cairo a _requirement_ for Gtk+ on UNIXy systems or not?

Those instructions haven't been updated in quite a while. Cairo is part
of the GTK+ API and a dependency of GTK+ on all platforms.

						- Owen