Re: Emacs-23 release branch

[Jason Rumney]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Sounds good, but currently our implementation of SVG is tied heavily
>> to GTK, which makes using it on other platforms difficult and bug
>> prone due to all the dependencies that get pulled in, not all of which
>> have been ported well.
>
> Could you elaborate?  Is it possible to get Emacs+SVG working on (say)
> Windows if you install enough libraries?  From what I know, librsvg
> itself is supposed to work on all POSIX systems and on Windows.

It's possible after installing most of GTK and some libraries from
Gnome. About 20 libraries in total.  It then crashes if you open any SVG
file that contains stretched or rotated text.