Re: Any prebuilt binary of Skia is widely distributed? (Re: Skia-based ot-svg renderer hook to freetype (Re: Scheduling Zoom meeting to discuss new...

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Hiya - found a gem:  https://github.com/JetBrains/skia-pack/releases 

They have m110 - lightly patched (they seems to have 16 patches on top, mostly making font rasterization settings changeable on-the-fly, I think). Static libraries plus headers. Seems to be for the purpose of using Skia with Java.

Now bolting ft2-demo on top of skia (instead of rsvg) for rendering OT-SVG is do-able :-).

On Thursday, 6 July 2023 at 13:48:52 GMT+8, suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp> wrote:

Hi Hin-Tak,

Are there any stable distributions of the

prebuilt Skia binary, especially for Linux?

The skia-python package has its own Skia

binary (plus libbz2, libfreetype, libfontconfig,

libpng, and libuuid).

Once, I was involved in developing SVG Native

Viewer, which has the backend to Skia.

Checking the availability and compatibility

of the Skia was a difficult problem. To test

the features, I had to build the Skia binary

by myself for testing, and it was too hard to

incorporate into the CI testing because I don't

believe in the reliability of a huge homegrown

binary, and building the Skia binary consumes

so long time for the CI platforms.

In addition, even if there is an individual

Skia package in some Linux distributions,

maybe the Chromium browser would not use it

- Chromium binary may merge the Skia into

its binary, and there is no separate library.

The skin-python can wrap up such issues, but

I wonder whether the API of the prebuilt Skia

binary in the PIP package is stable. And even

if it is stable, I'm still wondering whether

it is a good idea to link the binary content

of the PIP package from the external (non-PIP)

binaries. Are there any applications providing

the Skia library as an individual component?

Regards,

mpsuzuki