Re: Building Skia Debugger Locally with Buildbot

[John Stiles]

Could you please be more specific about what sorts of issues you are encountering? It is hard to know where to start diagnosing remotely from "I can't get it to work." Thanks :)

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 10:56 AM Dominic <domini...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've spent a ton of time trying to get Skia Debugger to build locally. I've read through the instructions countless times and still can't get it to work. I also can't seem to find any working examples.

I am currently using a Mac. I tried using Docker to build the Linux version as well but that isn't working either. Any help would be appreciated.

Refences:

https://skia.org/docs/dev/tools/debugger

https://skia.googlesource.com/buildbot/+/refs/heads/main

https://skia.googlesource.com/buildbot/+/refs/heads/main/debugger-app/

https://skia.googlesource.com/buildbot/+/refs/heads/main/docker/Dockerfile

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[kjlu...@google.com]

make run-local-instance

Is the target you should be running, but due to some Bazel dependency resolution things, it appears to still be trying to get you to download some of our prebuilt Docker images (which we do not want you to do).

If you are willing to patch your local checkout of the skia-buildbot repo, try removing all the "use_debugger_from_container_true" branches of these select statements
https://github.com/google/skia-buildbot/blob/b523cfab24b2fc07c86478acd98f4e23b9500378/debugger-app/wasm_libs/BUILD.bazel#L24-L49

I'm hopeful that will remove the docker issues and let you just run the debugger-app backend with a custom build of canvaskit that you seem to have been able to build successfully.

Kaylee

On Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at 9:26:06 AM UTC-4 Dominic wrote:

I really would prefer to be able to build Skia Debugger locally from scratch myself so that I can test out all of my local changes in real-time rather than being dependent on re-downloading and then re-patching Google's Docker images for every single change but I will honestly take whatever I can get at this point.