Hello I would download Skia in a subdir (get latest tga) and write a meson file with only what you need. I've already done that with Angle
before a freetype release checkout if a newer tag is out On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 3:45 AM Charlie Jiang <char...@chariri.moe> wrote: > > Hi Hin-Tak, Werner and other folks, > > The recent posts from Hin-Tak provided us promising insights in > implementing OT-SVG hook bridges in calling programs. I wonder if the > current status of Skia hook is approriate for being incorporating into > ftinspect. My considerations are: > > - Maturity of bridge code (namely, skia-port.[ch]): Are they performing > well enough for a (experimental) integration? Do they work stably across > Skia versions? I'm seeing different patches for different Skia versions; > > - Building Skia: Skia is built using tools (e.g. gn) completely > different from what we're using for building ftinspect (CMake and > Meson). I plan to not directly include the commands to build Skia into > the ftinspect build system, but to ask user to provide Skia library > paths. However, I'm concerned that Skia depends on (possibly another > build of) freetype, which may cause conflict. Maybe Hin-Tak have some > tips on handling this correctly? > > If done, I plan to flag this feature as experimental and optional > (default disabled, enable in build system). However, I may lack the > resources and experise to test the code thoroughly, so I wonder if > Hin-Tak could help. > > BTW @Hin-Tak, The Qt6 support for ftinspect has almost completely not > been worked on, I just wrote the conditional compilation (specifically, > code about `QTextCodec`) because I learnt that `QTextCodec` was > deprecated in Qt6, and that's the only part I've considered about Qt6. > Therefore, further work is definitely required to ensure the whole > program works on Qt6. Sorry for the confusion. > > Best regards, > Charlie Jiang >
