Re: Assistance required: porting skia

Op 16-10-2025 om 13:56 schreef Robert Clausecker:
> Greetings!
> 
> I am the maintainer of the ladybird port.
> Unfortunately this project has required skia to build for a while now,
> which poses a big problem.  Namely, it's the only port that needs skia
> but doesn't bundle it.  But we don't have skia packaged right now.
> Packaging skia seems like a big deal, with potentially lots of patching
> required (though most patches can be taken from chromium ports that
> bundle skia).  Would anybody be interested in giving it a shot?  This
> would then permit us to have up-to-date ladybird again, giving our users
> more choice as far as web browsers are concerned.
> 
> Yours,
> Robert Clausecker
> 


https://skia.org/docs/user/build/

Apparently it uses Bazel and GN.
For recent Bazel a PR is available: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287546.
The GN tool I'm not aware if it is in the ports tree or not.

Regards,
Ronald.