[OT] Anyone familiar with the google tooling - SKIA as a static library (maybe for D) ?

[Basile B via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 15:43:10 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 14:23:03 UTC, Basile B wrote:
>> I'd like to build SKIA[1] as a static library and interface it 
>> with D.
>> However it's hard to build, I don't get anything to their 
>> build system, you need 'gen' to generate a 'ninja' file so you 
>> must build 'gen' but to build 'gen' you must..., wtf is this 
>> cluster fuck...
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> [1]https://skia.org/
>
> I have built it back when it still used gyp.  I believe what 
> you need to do is
>
> 1. Install depot_tools: 
> http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/install-depot-tools
>
> 2. Use gclient from depot_tools to get skia: 
> https://skia.org/user/download
>
> 3. Use gclient to get gn and build skia: 
> https://skia.org/user/build
>
> They give you all the steps, but it's confusing if you haven't 
> done it before and don't read them carefully.  Just follow 
> their exact instructions in those three pages and you should be 
> set up.

Thanks. But step 1 yet looks like a complete charlie foxtrot (I 
clone it but nothing is build. So glicent...well goodnight...)

I'll try this tomorrow.