From: John E. Malmberg [wb8tyw@qsl.network]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:45 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: renderext 0.9 for OpenVMS (X11 definitions)

JOUKJ wrote:
> John E. Malmberg wrote:
> 
>>                 Render
>>           X Render Extension
>>             Version 0.8
>>               2003-4-21
>>
> [snip]
> 
>> If you do not have DECWindows-Motif installed and the current GNV 
>> installed, then this library is probably not of use.
>>
> And the code generated with it can only be applied on an X-server with 
> the XRender extension. None of the DECWindows-Motif have this extension 
> (AFAIK). To use it you need an other X-server (i.e. a linux system) on 
> which the extension is more or less standard.

Actually Cairo, a component of GTK+ 2.x will not product any X11 output 
even on systems that do not support the Xrender unless it is built with 
libXrender.

I could not find any way to remove this dependency from Cairo.

And with out X11 output on Cairo, GTK+ is useless for graphics on OpenVMS.

And libXrender will not build with out renderext being present.

-John
wb8tyw@qsl.network
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