Based on Dethe Elza's version https://bitbucket.org/dethe/gocairo but significantly extended and updated.

Go specific extensions:

• NewSurfaceFromImage(image.Image)
• Surface.GetData() []byte
• Surface.SetData([]byte)
• Surface.GetImage() image.Image
• Surface.SetImage(image.Image)

go-cairo also sports a sub package extimage with image.Image/draw.Image implementations for 32 bit ARGB and 24 bit RGB color models.

Overview:

• http://go.pkgdoc.org/github.com/Joker/go-cairo
• http://go.pkgdoc.org/github.com/ungerik/go-cairo/extimage

Missing features

• FontFace
• FontOptions
• ScaledFont

For Gentoo:

emerge x11-libs/cairo

For Debian and Debian derivatives including Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev

For Fedora:

sudo yum install cairo-devel

For openSUSE:

zypper install cairo-devel

Copyrights: See LICENSE file