rcairo
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Ruby bindings for cairo // cairo extension for Ruby

http://cairographics.org/


Dependencies
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ruby                   >= 1.8
cairo                  >= 1.2.0

Compiling
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% ruby extconf.rb    # to check for dependencies and create Makefiles
% make               # to compile

# make install       # to install the cairo extension.
                     # The samples in the samples folder should be able
                     # to run before installation except text-on-path.rb
                     # and text2.rb. They uses Ruby/Pango with rcairo
                     # support. So you need to install rcairo and build
                     # Ruby/Pango with it before you run them.


Windows
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cairo-X.Y.Z-x86-mswin32.gem includes cairo related binaries.

  * cairo related binaries:
      http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/

      * cairo-X.Y.Z.zip
      * cairo-dev-X.Y.Z.zip
      * libpng-X.Y.Z.zip
      * libpng-dev-X.Y.Z.zip
      * zlib-X.Y.Z.zip

Documents
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  * Reference manual:
      http://cairo.rubyforge.org/doc/

    Repository of the reference manual:
      http://www.cozmixng.org/repos/rcairo-doc/

  * An article for rcairo on Rubyst Magazine a.k.a. RubiMa (in Japanese):
      http://jp.rubyist.net/magazine/?0019-cairo

Mailing list
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If you have trouble with cairo or rcairo, or you have some ideas for how
it could be improved, please feel free to send a message to the cairo
mailinglist at cairo@cairographics.org , which is archived at

  http://cairographics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cairo

Thanks
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  * Yoshinao Muramatsu: win32 surface support patch.
  * NANKI Haruo: some bug fix patches.
  * Paul van Tilburg:
    - some patches that support ruby 1.9.
    - some suggestions.
  * Binzo: some bug reports and fixed that.
  * kimura wataru:
    - some advices for RubyCocoa.
    - reports a bug.
  * OBATA Akio:
    - reports a bug.
    - some suggestions.
  * James Healy: reports bugs.
  * Carsten Bormann: A suggestion.
  * Davide Rambaldi: A suggestion.
  * Yusuke ENDOH: reports a bug.