Re: Assistance required: porting skia
Piotr Smyrak <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 11:03:56 +0100 Ronald Klop <[email protected]> wrote: > Op 16-10-2025 om 13:56 schreef Robert Clausecker: > > > > 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. > > 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. This is already available in the ports tree: graphics/skia -- Piotr Smyrak