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It's mostly "How to Effectively Fight with GYP", which is no longer interesting. BUG=skia:6043 NOTRY=true DOCS_PREVIEW= https://skia.org/?cl=5761 Change-Id: I760e8d9c6577846b34d8f1f0d2e37b5a3c553ccf Reviewed-on: https://skia-review.googlesource.com/5761 Reviewed-by: Heather Miller <hcm@google.com> Commit-Queue: Mike Klein <mtklein@chromium.org>
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Building with Skia Tutorial
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===========================
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dsinclair@chromium.org
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This document describes the steps used to create an application that uses Skia. The assumptions are that you're using:
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* [git](http://git-scm.com)
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* [gclient](https://code.google.com/p/gclient/)
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* [gyp](https://code.google.com/p/gyp/)
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* [ninja](http://martine.github.io/ninja/)
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I'm going to describe up to the point where we can build a simple application that prints out an SkPaint.
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Overview
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--------
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1. Create remote repository.
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1. Configure and sync using gclient.
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1. Create DEPS file to pull in third party repositories.
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1. Setup gitignore for directories pulled in from DEPS.
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1. Configure GYP.
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1. Setup GYP auto-run when gclient sync is executed.
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gclient setup
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-------------
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The first step is to setup a remote git repo, take your pick of provider. In
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my case, the repo is called UsingSkia and lives on
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[bitbucket](https://bitbucket.org).
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With the remote repo created, we create a .gclient configuration file. The
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gclient config command will write the file for us:
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$ gclient config --name=src https://bitbucket.org/dj2/usingskia.git
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This will create the following:
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solutions = [
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{ "name" : "src",
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"url" : "https://bitbucket.org/dj2/usingskia.git",
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"deps_file" : "DEPS",
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"managed" : True,
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"custom_deps" : {
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},
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"safesync_url": "",
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},
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]
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cache_dir = None
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The name that we configured is the directory in which the repo will be checked
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out. This is done by running gclient sync. There is a bit of magic that
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gclient does around the url to determine if the repo is SVN or GIT. I've found
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the use of ssh:// and the .git on the end seem to work to get the right SCM
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type.
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$ gclient sync
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This should execute a bunch of commands (and, in this case, may end with an
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error because the repo was empty. That seems to be fine.) When finished, you
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should have a src directory with your git repository checked out.
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DEPS
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----
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With the repo created we can go ahead and create our src/DEPS file. The DEPS
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file is used by gclient to checkout the dependent repositories of our
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application. In this case, the Skia repository.
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Create a src/DEPS file with the following:
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~~~~
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vars = {
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"skia_revision": "a6a8f00a3977e71dbce9da50a32c5e9a51c49285",
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}
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deps = {
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"src/third_party/skia/":
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"http://skia.googlesource.com/skia.git@" + Var("skia_revision"),
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}
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~~~~
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There are two sections to the `DEPS` file at the moment, `vars` and `deps`.
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The `vars` sections defines variables we can use later in the file with the
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`Var()` accessor. In this case, we define our root directory, a shorter name
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for any googlesource repositories and a specific revision of Skia that we're
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going to use. I've pinned to a specific version to insulate the application
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from changes in the Skia tree. This lets us know that when someone checks out
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the repo they'll be using the same version of Skia that we've built and tested
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against.
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The `deps` section defines our dependencies. Currently we have one dependency
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which we're going to checkout into the `src/third_party/skia` directory.
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Once the deps file is created, commit and push it to the remote repository.
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Once done, we can use gclient to checkout our dependencies.
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$ gclient sync
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This should output a whole bunch of lines about files that are being added to
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your project. This may also be a good time to create a `.gitignore` file. You
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don't want to check the `third_party/skia directory` into your repository as
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it's being managed by gclient.
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Now, we've run into a problem. Skia itself has a `DEPS` file which defines the
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`third_party` libraries it needs to build. None of those dependencies are being
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checked out so Skia will fail to build.
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The way I found around that is to add a second solution to the `.gclient`
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file. This solution tells gclient about Skia and will pull in the needed
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dependencies. I edited my `.gclient` file (created by the `gclient config`
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command above) to look as follows:
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solutions = [
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{ "name" : "src",
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"url" : "https://bitbucket.org/dj2/usingskia.git",
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"deps_file" : "DEPS",
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"managed" : True,
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"custom_deps" : {
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},
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"safesync_url": "",
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},
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{ "name" : "src/third_party/skia",
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"url" : "http://skia.googlesource.com/skia.git@a6a8f00a3977e71dbce9da50a32c5e9a51c49285",
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"deps_file" : "DEPS",
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"managed" : True,
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"custom_deps" : {
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},
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"safesync_url": "",
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},
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]
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cache_dir = None
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This is a little annoying at the moment since I've duplicated the repository
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revision number in the `.gclient` file. I'm hoping to find a way to do this
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through the `DEPS` file, but until then, this seems to work.
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With that done, re-run `gclient sync` and you should see a whole lot more
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repositories being checked out. The
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`src/third_party/skia/third_party/externals` directory should now be
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populated.
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GYP
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---
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The final piece of infrastructure we need to set up is GYP. GYP is a build
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system generator, in this project we're going to have it build ninja
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configuration files.
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First, we need to add GYP to our project. We'll do that by adding a new entry
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to the deps section of the `DEPS` file.
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"src/tools/gyp":
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(Var("googlesource_url") % "gyp") + "/trunk@1700",
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As you can see, I'm going to put the library into `src/tools/gyp` and checkout
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revision 1700 (note, the revision used here, 1700, was the head revision at
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the time the `DEPS` file was written. You're probably safe to use the
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tip-of-tree revision in your `DEPS` file). A quick `gclient sync` and we
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should have everything checked out.
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In order to run GYP we'll create a wrapper script. I've called this
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`src/build/gyp_using_skia`.
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~~~~
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#!/usr/bin/python
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import os
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import sys
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script_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
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using_skia_src = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(script_dir, os.pardir))
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sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(using_skia_src, 'tools', 'gyp', 'pylib'))
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import gyp
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if __name__ == '__main__':
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args = sys.argv[1:]
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if not os.environ.get('GYP_GENERATORS'):
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os.environ['GYP_GENERATORS'] = 'ninja'
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args.append('--check')
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args.append('-I%s/third_party/skia/gyp/common.gypi' % using_skia_src)
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args.append(os.path.join(script_dir, '..', 'using_skia.gyp'))
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print 'Updating projects from gyp files...'
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sys.stdout.flush()
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sys.exit(gyp.main(args))
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~~~~
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Most of this is just setup code. The two interesting bits are:
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1. `args.append('-I%s/third_party/skia/gyp/common.gypi' % using_skia_src)`
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1. `args.append(os.path.join(script_dir, '..', 'using_skia.gyp'))`
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In the case of 1, we're telling GYP to include (-I) the
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`src/third_party/skia/gyp/common.gypi` file which will define necessary
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variables for Skia to compile. In the case of 2, we're telling GYP that the
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main configuration file for our application is `src/using_skia.gyp`.
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The `src/using_skia.gyp` file is as follows:
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~~~~
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{
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'targets': [
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{
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'configurations': {
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'Debug': { },
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'Release': { }
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},
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'target_name': 'using_skia',
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'type': 'executable',
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'dependencies': [
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'third_party/skia/gyp/skia_lib.gyp:skia_lib'
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],
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'include_dirs': [
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'third_party/skia/include/config',
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'third_party/skia/include/core',
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],
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'sources': [
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'app/main.cpp'
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],
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'ldflags': [
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'-lskia', '-stdlib=libc++', '-std=c++11'
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],
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'cflags': [
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'-Werror', '-W', '-Wall', '-Wextra', '-Wno-unused-parameter', '-g', '-O0'
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]
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}
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]
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}
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~~~~
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There is a lot going on in there, I'll touch on some of the highlights. The
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`configurations` section allows us to have different build flags for our `Debug`
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and `Release` build (in this case they're the same, but I wanted to define
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them.) The `target_name` defines the name of the build target which we'll
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provide to ninja. It will also be the name of the executable that we build.
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The dependencies section lists our build dependencies. These will be built
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before our sources are built. In this case, we depend on the `skia_lib` target
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inside `third_party/skia/gyp/skia_lib.gyp`.
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The include_dirs will be added to the include path when our files are built.
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We need to reference code in the config and core directories of Skia.
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`sources`, `ldflags` and `cflags` should be obvious.
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Our application is defined in `src/app/main.cpp` as:
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~~~~
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#include "SkPaint.h"
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#include "SkString.h"
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int main(int argc, char** argv) {
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SkPaint paint;
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paint.setColor(SK_ColorRED);
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SkString str;
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paint.toString(&str);
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fprintf(stdout, "%s\n", str.c_str());
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return 0;
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}
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~~~~
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We're just printing out an SkPaint to show that everything is linking correctly.
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Now, we can run:
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$ ./build/gyp_using_skia
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And, we get an error. Turns out, Skia is looking for a `find\_mac\_sdk.py` file in
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a relative tools directory which doesn't exist. Luckily, that's easy to fix
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with another entry in our DEPS file.
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"src/tools/":
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File((Var("googlesource_url") % "skia") + "/trunk/tools/find_mac_sdk.py@" +
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Var("skia_revision")),
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Here we using the `File()` function of `gclient` to specify that we're checking
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out an individual file. Running `gclient sync` should pull the necessary file
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into `src/tools`.
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With that, running `build/gyp\_using\_skia` should complete successfully. You
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should now have an `out/` directory with a `Debug/` and `Release/` directory inside.
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These correspond to the configurations we specified in `using\_skia.gyp`.
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With all that out of the way, if you run:
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$ ninja -C out/Debug using_skia
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The build should execute and you'll end up with an `out/Debug/using\_skia` which
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when executed, prints out our SkPaint entry.
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Autorun GYP
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-----------
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One last thing, having to run `build/gyp\_using\_skia` after each sync is a bit of
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a pain. We can fix that by adding a `hooks` section to our `DEPS` file. The `hooks`
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section lets you list a set of hooks to execute after `gclient` has finished the
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sync.
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hooks = [
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{
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# A change to a .gyp, .gypi or to GYP itself should run the generator.
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"name": "gyp",
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"pattern": ".",
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"action": ["python", "src/build/gyp_using_skia"]
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}
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]
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Adding the above to the end of DEPS and running gclient sync should show the
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GYP files being updated at the end of the sync procedure.
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