[webkit-dev] KWQ Graphics code on Windows

[Justin Haygood]

On 1/16/06, Krzysztof Kowalczyk <kkowalczyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would vote for GDI+ or cairo (it that order). Cairo is still
> supposed to be slow, is additional dependency and would increase code
> size. GDI+ is already there.
>
> WPF, for practical purposes, doesn't exist yet. I wouldn't feel
> comfortable writing against technology that didn't ship v1.0 yet.
>
> BTW: is there some kind of a plan or a list of tasks to be done for
> windows port? I might find the time to do work, but I wouldn't know
> where to start or what parts need work. I noticed that recently there
> was work on windows port from Justing and Dave Hyatt but it's not
> clear what's the end goal of this effort is and what are areas that
> are known to need more work (so that there is no work duplication or
> going in a direction that is different from what other people are
> doing).


I think the current (silent) consensus is to get higher level portions of
WebCore to compile, and then work on implementing KWQ and other lower level
classes.

FYI:

JavaScriptCore compiles on Windows. I have a patch to build it as a DLL in
Bugzilla right now (submitted for a few minutes ago), though I use my own
build system currently. It also works! (minus a "bug" in Microsoft's
implementation of gmtime/localtime - not a bug perse since the spec allows
what they do, but they don't follow the rest of the 'modern' libc
implementations)


Krzysztof Kowalczyk
>
> On 1/16/06, Justin Haygood <jhaygood at spsu.edu> wrote:
> > We have several libraries we can choose from:
> >
> >
> > GDI
> > GDI+
> > Windows Presentation Foundation (XP/2003/Vista only)
> > Cairo (portable) - Mozilla's choice, LGPL'ed
> > Which should we use?
> >
> > They all have their pros/cons
> >
> > GDI is a C library, Windows only, hardware accelerated on Vista,
> > semi-hardware accelerated pre-Vista
> > GDI+ is object oriented, portable (sorta), hardware accelerated on
> Vista,
> > software accelerated pre-Vista
> > WPF is object oriented, not native C++, hardware accelerated on all
> > supported platforms
> > Cairo is a C library, portable, hardware accelerated depending on
> > implementation
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