[cairo] building a "tiny" libcairo for embedded system?

[Mike Emmel]

On 1/30/06, David Young <dyoung at pobox.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have a recipe for building a tiny libcairo, suitable for an
> embedded system with a tight ROM/RAM budget---e.g., 8/16MB?
>
> Cairo itself may be acceptably small, but its dependency, libfreetype,
> is gigantic.  Let me know how you have built Cairo without libfreetype.
>

You can strip libfreetype down to meet your requirments they have a
lot of build options. I've done it before I don't remember the exact
size but it was around 100k plus or so with just ttf support.

Its still large but much smaller then the default build. I don't know what fonts
your planning on using.
Also if  its a simple bitmap font your create a very simple font
plugin for say pcf fonts
for cairo you won't get outlines obviously. If I remember correctly
trying to build just a pcf support version of freetype still included
quite a  bit more then it needed but give it a try.

I'd be happy to help if your using a standard bitmap font format.

Mike


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