libgdiplus: An Open Source implementation of the GDI+ API. This is part of the Mono project - http://mono-project.com Requirements: This requires the libraries used by the Cairo vector graphics library to build (freetype2, fontconfig, Xft2 and libpng, basically). To build: ./configure --prefix=YOUPREFIX make To install: make install Optional build options [UNSUPPORTED] --with-pango This builds libgdiplus using Pango to render (measure and draw) all of it's text. This requires Pango version 1.10 (or later).