Recomended cairo bindings

[Robert burner Schadek via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 14 September 2014 at 13:30:28 UTC, Paul Z. Barsan 
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to use a cairo XlibSurface for painting in a project of 
> mine and I don't know what bindings should I use. I've started 
> with deimos.cairo which has a C-style syntax and works well on 
> my linux machine. After I heard about dub, I switched to this 
> build system and I ran into problems:
>
> First of all, the cairo version in the dub registry is 
> different from the deimos version. CairoD (dub pkg) has support 
> for more surfaces and provides D-style wrappers but I get 
> compile-time errors. When I try to get an instance of 
> XlibSurface I get an "undefined identifier XlibSurface" 
> error.At a closer inspection, I see that CAIRO_HAS_XLIB_SURFACE 
> is set to false in cairo/c/config.d even though I have a cairo 
> library with xlib support. I'm sure about this because I've 
> checked the headers in /usr/include/cairo/cairo-features.h. 
> Looking into the deimos version, I see that the 
> CairoHasXlibSurface flag is set to true. As a conclusion, I 
> think that both config.d(cairod) and features.d(deimos.cairo) 
> should be generated while building the liibraries to mirror the 
> cairo-features.h header.
>
> A second problem with cairoD from dub registry is that it 
> depends uppon std.c.linux.X11.* which doesn't exist on my 
> machine. I have libphobos-devel 2.066.0-1 installed and I've 
> looked into my dir structure but I've failed to find something 
> related to X11. I've also looked in the online docs 
> http://dlang.org/library/std/c/linux/tipc.html and the X11 
> bindings are not there. I suppose that X11 bindings went from 
> phobos to deimos and now deimos ussage is depprecated because 
> of dub. So the dub version of cairo bindings should use the dub 
> version of libX11, but they don't.
>
> I want to use cairoD for dub but at this point it seems to be 
> unusable.I can live with a C-Style syntax but I want to have 
> cross-platform support and the deimos version has only the xlib 
> surface.Aiming for a long term project, I want to know which 
> version of cairo bindings are going to be continued ? What do 
> you recommend ?

use gtkd they have a cairo binding