Skia: an open source 2D graphics library

Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by alkonaut on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:19AM (#16149857)

Xamarins wrapper for C# made it a breeze to use from C# at least - just add the package. The same is likely true for all ecosystems with reasonable package management. It’s only ironic that C++ libs are hardest to use from...C++

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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by pjmlp on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:48AM (#16149942)

Sadly a consequence of the C culture that was adopted in C++ regarding how libraries should be distributed, before the time of package managers.

Just checked, and Skia is not to be found anywhere across vcpkg, Conan, Hunter, Ubuntu, Debian.

So using C# sounds much better than having to understand Google specific build processes to compile it.

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Re:Skia: an open source 2D graphics library by gaze on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:37PM (#16174740)

I believe that... but the only reason why is they bent over backwards to come up with something that works today, and likely won't work in another 3 months, given the rate of turnover of build systems.

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