How to build HelloWorld

[creyer s]

Hello,
I have succeeded in building Skia (I can run the SampleApp). My question is where I can find instructions on building the example/HelloWorld app.

[Cary Clark]

The example/HeloWorld has fallen into disrepair. It has largely been superceded by fiddle.skia.org, which provides an online way to play around and try things out.

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:00 PM, creyer s <cre...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,
I have succeeded in building Skia (I can run the SampleApp). My question is where I can find instructions on building the example/HelloWorld app.

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[creyer s]

Thanks for the resource.
My actual issue is that I am more a Java, Scala dev, so I have no actual experience with building a basic app with Skia. 
Presuming that I have my HelloWorld code can you point me to how I actual build the HelloApp to deploy it on my server.

On Friday, October 6, 2017 at 11:10:31 PM UTC+3, Cary Clark wrote:

The example/HeloWorld has fallen into disrepair. It has largely been superceded by fiddle.skia.org, which provides an online way to play around and try things out.

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:00 PM, creyer s <cre...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,
I have succeeded in building Skia (I can run the SampleApp). My question is where I can find instructions on building the example/HelloWorld app.

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[Cary Clark]

It may be helpful to look at BUILD.gn, particularly how the app viewer is built. The number of general source files is much smaller than SampleApp, and it has done a good job of breaking out platform specific files. If I were building a replacement Hello World, I'd probably start there and strip it down to the bare minimum.

Without knowing your specifics, if you are generating a server side solution, the source for fiddle may be useful; see BUILD.gn for its dependencies.

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[Jim Van Verth]

This change will fix Hello World and should be landing soon: https://skia-review.googlesource.com/c/skia/+/57101. You just need to set up gn as you would for any other part of Skia, and then

'ninja -C out/<gn-directory> HelloWorld'.

However, Cary is right, in the long run it would be better to strip it down to the tools/viewer/sk_app interface. I've filed a bug here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/skia/issues/detail?id=7141.

[creyer s]

Thank you very much for the help. I really appreciate