cairo
Version, currently 1.0.39 versions
github.com/TamasSzekeres/cairo-cr
Cairo bindings for Crystal language.
33 stars
2 dependents
License: MIT
Installation
# Add this to your shard.yml
dependencies:
cairo:
github: TamasSzekeres/cairo-cr
version: ~> 1.0.3Then run:
shards installshard.yml
- Crystal
>= 0.35.0- License
- MIT
- Author
- Tamás Szekeres
Dependencies
Runtime Dependencies
- x11~> 1.0github: TamasSzekeres/x11-cr, branch: master
README
cairo-cr
Cairo bindings for Crystal language.
Installation
First install cairo:
sudo apt-get install libcairo2 libcairo2-dev
Add this to your application's shard.yml:
dependencies:
cairo:
github: TamasSzekeres/cairo-cr
Then run in terminal:
shards install
See also: x11-cr
Usage
require "x11"
require "cairo"
module YourModule
include X11::C # for low-level usage
include Cairo::C # for low-level usage
include X11 # for high-level usage
include Cairo # for high-level usage
end
For more details see the sample in /examples folder.
Sample
Build and run the low-level sample:
cd examples/sample_window
shards build
./bin/sample_window

Build and run the high-level sample:
cd examples/sample_window_hl
shards build
./bin/sample_window
Documentation
You can generate documentation for yourself:
crystal doc
Then you can open /docs/index.html in your browser.
Or you can view last commited documentation online at: https://tamasszekeres.github.io/cairo-cr/.
Contributing
- Fork it (https://github.com/TamasSzekeres/cairo-cr/fork)
- Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
- Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
- Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
- Create a new Pull Request
Contributors
- Tamás Szekeres - creator, maintainer
Documentation
Built from the current release. The first visit to a release nobody has asked for starts its build.
Links
This release
- Version
1.0.3- Tagged
- Jun 12, 2022
- Commit
3db257914920- Crystal
>= 0.35.0- Indexed
- yes
Dependents
Repository
github.com/TamasSzekeres/cairo-cr
Metadata
- Created
- Aug 12, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 24, 2026
- Synced
- Sep 23, 2026
- Versions
- 9