On 8/15/05, Tor Lillqvist <<a href="mailto:tml@iki.fi">tml@iki.fi</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Daniel K. O. writes: > Is there a special reason to build it without freetype and png? Well, just for GTK+'s use of cairo those are not needed. But on the other hand GTK+ requires libpng anyway, and Pango includes libpangoft2 which uses freetype. So if somebody uses cairo outside GTK+ would it be a small save in the number of requirements. On the other hand a non-GTK+ use of cairo is perhaps then more likely to want the PNG or PostScript backends? I guess only if somebody explicitly asks for it I'll build also a minimal cairo distribution for Win32. </blockquote></div> I'll tell you what I need it for and let you decide if my request is worth your efforts :) I'm basically planning on using cairo as a rendering platform the charting package instead of current gd. Its a distributable software component, so less dlls I include, easier it is to maintain. FreeType and PNG are important to have though, so that's something to consider if you're willing to build a standalone library. Thanks! -- - Boris