Skiasharp: FeatureRequest-Build skia to UWP from source steps

[picrolandew]

Hello Guys,

Could you please share the steps of building skia from SKIA source to universal windows platform ?

Any help, tips is appreciated.

[mattleibow]

You should be able to run the externals-uwp task to get the native bits:

> .\bootstrapper.ps1 -Target externals-uwp

To do all the bits (the managed bits as well as the native bits), you can run the libs task:

> .\bootstrapper.ps1 -Target libs

This is what we run on CI. Let me know if this is what you are looking for, or if you are looking for something more specific.

[picrolandew]

First, thank you so much for your responce.

I'm trying to get SKIA source (Latest source) and build it to UWP.
I found you guys already support this..... but need to build the latest from source, so I thought there might be a steps to do it here.

[mattleibow]

you can check out SkiaSharp (make sure the submodules come too) and then run the commands above.
The actual C/C++ source lives here: https://github.com/mono/skia/tree/xamarin-mobile-bindings
And the actual commands that are run in the externals-uwp target are here: https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp/blob/master/cake/BuildExternals.cake#L165-L189

As for some real docs, I do need to get around to that.

[mattleibow]

To get the latest source, I have to merge from upstream into our skia fork. I want to do that very soon. It is mostly a painless operation, but Google often changes a few types :) changes values of enums :) and deprecates/removes members :) It typically takes a day or so.

The version number that I release as "stable" is the version that Chrome has as "stable". Right now it is 59. It typically works as "master" => alpha; "master-1 (m60)" => beta; "master-2 (m59)" => stable (after a few days)

[mattleibow]

Closing this issue as the steps are really just .\bootstrapper.ps1 -t externals-uwp. For the merging bits, it is a bit of work and not really a step-by-step process. Each change and conflict has to be addressed like any codebase.