Skia for Friction

Skia fork for use with Friction.

Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.

Linux/macOS

Note that Friction includes skia and will build it for you.

Requirements

• ninja
• python3
• cmake
• clang
• expat
• harfbuzz
• freetype
• fontconfig
• libjpeg-turbo
• libpng
• libwebp
• libicu
• zlib

Options

• -DSKIA_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS=OFF
• -DSKIA_SYNC_EXTERNAL=ON (not needed if using source tarball)

Will build all dependencies instead of using system libraries.

Build and install

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -G Ninja \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ \
-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang ..
cmake --build .

cmake --install .

This will install libskia-friction.so to defined install path. Add optional --prefix=/some/path to install to a different location.

Note: Install option only available on Linux.

Windows

Requirements

• CMake, Python and Ninja in PATH
• LLVM (Installed to Program Files, v15 recommended)
• Visual Studio (Build Tools) 2017

Build

cmake -A x64 -DSKIA_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS=OFF -DSKIA_SYNC_EXTERNAL=ON ..
cmake --build .

• SKIA_SYNC_EXTERNAL=ON requires git in PATH, not needed if using source tarball