Re: Implementing Skia OT-SVG hook bridge in ftinspect?

[Vincent Torri]

Hello

I would download Skia in a subdir (get latest tga) and write a meson
file with only what you need. I've already done that with Angle

before a freetype release checkout if a newer tag is out

On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 3:45 AM Charlie Jiang <chariri@chariri.moe> wrote:
>
> Hi Hin-Tak, Werner and other folks,
>
> The recent posts from Hin-Tak provided us promising insights in
> implementing OT-SVG hook bridges in calling programs. I wonder if the
> current status of Skia hook is approriate for being incorporating into
> ftinspect. My considerations are:
>
> - Maturity of bridge code (namely, skia-port.[ch]): Are they performing
> well enough for a (experimental) integration? Do they work stably across
> Skia versions? I'm seeing different patches for different Skia versions;
>
> - Building Skia: Skia is built using tools (e.g. gn) completely
> different from what we're using for building ftinspect (CMake and
> Meson). I plan to not directly include the commands to build Skia into
> the ftinspect build system, but to ask user to provide Skia library
> paths. However, I'm concerned that Skia depends on (possibly another
> build of) freetype, which may cause conflict. Maybe Hin-Tak have some
> tips on handling this correctly?
>
> If done, I plan to flag this feature as experimental and optional
> (default disabled, enable in build system). However, I may lack the
> resources and experise to test the code thoroughly, so I wonder if
> Hin-Tak could help.
>
> BTW @Hin-Tak, The Qt6 support for ftinspect has almost completely not
> been worked on, I just wrote the conditional compilation (specifically,
> code about `QTextCodec`) because I learnt that `QTextCodec` was
> deprecated in Qt6, and that's the only part I've considered about Qt6.
> Therefore, further work is definitely required to ensure the whole
> program works on Qt6. Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Best regards,
> Charlie Jiang
>