uikit0 / xara-cairo

Fork of repo.or.cz/xara-cairo.git that builds on modern Linux and BSD systems using cairo-1.10 and png-1.5

xara-cairo

An fast, 100% open source vector drawing program based on XaraLX

Project Status

Maintainers needed. Tasks:

• Port to wxWindows 3.0 ( #5 )

Build Requirements

• wxgtk-unicode-2.8
• cairo-1.10
• libxml-2.7
• autoconf-2.69
• automake-1.10
• gettext-0.18
• perl-5.4
• libtool-2.4
• zip-3
• gmake-3.8
• png-1.5
• jpeg-9

OpenBSD

$ export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.10 AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.69
$ ./autogen.sh && ./configure
$ gmake

FreeBSD

$ sudo ln /usr/local/bin/wxgtk2u-2.8-config /usr/local/bin/wx-config
$ ./autogen.sh && ./configure
$ gmake

Linux (Debian, Ubuntu)

$ ./autogen.sh && ./configure
$ make

Fixes and Additions

(eradman)

• Removed debug printf statements
• Adapted to libpng 1.5 and 1.6
• Don't print memory warnings for platforms without malloc_usable_size(3)
• Compile with -Wno-write-strings
• Use stdlib.h instead of malloc.h on BSD systems
• Removed stale project files for XCode and Visual Studio
• Patched to allow wxWidgets and glib2 to coexist
• Compile on gcc 4.6 without -fpermissive
• Removed conflicting jconfig.h to enable builds against libjpeg-turbo
• Reduced source line count by 142k using a concise Copyright and GPLv2 notice
• Build no longer requires svn
• No more splash screen
• Exclude files from the repo that are auto-generated or copied
• Removed 4799 obsolete header file references and DECLARE tags
• Allow user to select so-called virtual fonts, such as 'Monospace'

(ed44)

• Fix the EXTEND_REPEAT and EXTEND_REFLECT options og the bitmap fill
• Fix the bitmap gallery
• Fix the colorline in the HSV coloreditor
• Fix PNG/JPEG bitmap import/handling

History

• 2013-08-19: Builds on OpenBSD 5.4 and FreeBSD 9.1
• 2012-07-03: Fork of xara-cairo builds on Ubuntu 12, Debian 6.0, FreeBSD 9.0 and OpenBSD 5.1
• 2010-05-11: First attempt at replacing CDraw with cairo announced along with a new Git repo at git://repo.or.cz/xara-cairo.git
• 2007-11-06: Last commit to SVN
• 2007-01-30: Xara LTD aquired by Magix
• 2006-03-16: SVN repository made public at xaraxtreme.org under the GPLv2 + a binary blob for the CDraw rendering engine