CUPS for Haiku ported?

Thursday, 04 June 2009 07:29

Don't get too excited yet, I'm a little confused about this, but TiltOS has a CUPS package for Haiku. It's relatively small (2.8 mb). I believe these are GCC4 packages. Perhaps someone from the community can clarify if this works, or includes any printer drivers. Previous efforts to port CUPS to Haiku were a bounty here, a GSOC project, and two projects at OSDrawer here and here.

Also of interest are Bonnie++, Boost, and Cairo. See the repository here. Instructions on how to setup Box (the package management program) here.

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0 # umccullough 2009-06-04 08:14

The Cairo package there is probably close to useless...looking at the patch in the pingwinek repo, it does nothing more than allow cairo to recognize the Haiku platform and compile, but it does NOT enable the "beos_surface" backend required to actually draw to the screen. Cairo was in that state quite a while ago, whereas there has since been some more recent work by Andreas and myself to actually get the beos_surface compiling: http://ports.haiku-files.org/wiki/x11-libs/cairo/git-master

Bonnie++ was ported by Salvatore during his HCD2008 project.

As for Boost - I believe that was ported recently as a dependency for Gnash.

And finally, CUPS...call it a hunch, but I doubt it's actually integrated into Haiku's printing subsystem. Feel free to prove me wrong, I certainly don't have the time to validate that notion.

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