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The attached patch ports the cairo bindings to chicken4. The test code needs the sdl port to be installed, but I did not include the sdl as needed by default as the code can use also other objects and means to draw on.

The mw egg is capable of some very complex tasks and the traditional approach to egg documentation is inadequate for describing what it can do. There should be some example code and possibly a tutorial page hosted on the Chicken wiki.

I'm working on strategies for integrating SLIB release 3b2 into Chicken as a small series of eggs each containing a number of compiled SLIB modules packaged as Chicken modules. As far as possible, existing Chicken code that provides SLIB features will be relied on.

Work to date comprises a SLIB module analyzer that packages a SLIB source module as a Chicken module and translates dependencies such as (require 'FEATURE), (require-if 'compiling 'FEATURE) to the equivalent Chicken require-extension, import and so on. When compiled, the modules work well with Chicken 4 and each other.

Much work still needs to be done particularly in integrating the various SLIB macro systems with compiled code.

Present thinking is that SLIB's catalog system will *not* be supported as, with proper treatment, it's made redundant by the egg system which is one of Chicken's greatest assets.