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Greetings!

I am the maintainer of the ladybird port.
Unfortunately this project has required skia to build for a while now,
which poses a big problem. Namely, it's the only port that needs skia
but doesn't bundle it. But we don't have skia packaged right now.
Packaging skia seems like a big deal, with potentially lots of patching required (though most patches can be taken from chromium ports that
bundle skia). Would anybody be interested in giving it a shot? This
would then permit us to have up-to-date ladybird again, giving our users
more choice as far as web browsers are concerned.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker
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Op 16-10-2025 om 13:56 schreef Robert Clausecker:

Greetings!

I am the maintainer of the ladybird port.
Unfortunately this project has required skia to build for a while now,
which poses a big problem. Namely, it's the only port that needs skia
but doesn't bundle it. But we don't have skia packaged right now.
Packaging skia seems like a big deal, with potentially lots of patching required (though most patches can be taken from chromium ports that
bundle skia). Would anybody be interested in giving it a shot? This
would then permit us to have up-to-date ladybird again, giving our users
more choice as far as web browsers are concerned.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

https://skia.org/docs/user/build/

Apparently it uses Bazel and GN.
For recent Bazel a PR is available: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287546.
The GN tool I'm not aware if it is in the ports tree or not.

Regards,
Ronald.




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On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 11:03:56 +0100
Ronald Klop <ronald@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

Op 16-10-2025 om 13:56 schreef Robert Clausecker:

Greetings!

I am the maintainer of the ladybird port.
Unfortunately this project has required skia to build for a while now, which poses a big problem. Namely, it's the only port that needs skia
but doesn't bundle it. But we don't have skia packaged right now. Packaging skia seems like a big deal, with potentially lots of patching required (though most patches can be taken from chromium ports that
bundle skia). Would anybody be interested in giving it a shot? This
would then permit us to have up-to-date ladybird again, giving our users more choice as far as web browsers are concerned.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

https://skia.org/docs/user/build/

Apparently it uses Bazel and GN.
For recent Bazel a PR is available: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287546.

The same version of Bazel is running to build japanese/mozc* ports
that are newer than in-tree version, maintained by Ken DEGUCHI as
overlay. (Introduded in the PR, but URL below).

https://github.com/kdeguchi/mozc-ports

Use-case for Bazel8 can be seen there, especially japanese/mozc-server.
This builds fine on Poudriere, too, for me.

The GN tool I'm not aware if it is in the ports tree or not.

devel/gn, maybe?

https://www.freshports.org/devel/gn

Regards.

Regards,
Ronald.

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On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 11:03:56 +0100
Ronald Klop <ronald@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

Op 16-10-2025 om 13:56 schreef Robert Clausecker:

I am the maintainer of the ladybird port.
Unfortunately this project has required skia to build for a while
now, which poses a big problem. Namely, it's the only port that
needs skia but doesn't bundle it. But we don't have skia packaged
right now. Packaging skia seems like a big deal, with potentially
lots of patching required (though most patches can be taken from
chromium ports that bundle skia). Would anybody be interested in
giving it a shot? This would then permit us to have up-to-date
ladybird again, giving our users more choice as far as web browsers
are concerned.

https://skia.org/docs/user/build/

Apparently it uses Bazel and GN.
For recent Bazel a PR is
available: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287546. The GN tool I'm not aware if it is in the ports tree or not.

This is already available in the ports tree:
graphics/skia
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Hi all,

Am Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 11:46:32AM +0100 schrieb Piotr Smyrak:

On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 11:03:56 +0100
Ronald Klop <ronald@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

Op 16-10-2025 om 13:56 schreef Robert Clausecker:

I am the maintainer of the ladybird port.
Unfortunately this project has required skia to build for a while
now, which poses a big problem. Namely, it's the only port that
needs skia but doesn't bundle it. But we don't have skia packaged
right now. Packaging skia seems like a big deal, with potentially
lots of patching required (though most patches can be taken from
chromium ports that bundle skia). Would anybody be interested in
giving it a shot? This would then permit us to have up-to-date
ladybird again, giving our users more choice as far as web browsers
are concerned.

https://skia.org/docs/user/build/

Apparently it uses Bazel and GN.
For recent Bazel a PR is
available: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287546. The GN tool I'm not aware if it is in the ports tree or not.

This is already available in the ports tree:
graphics/skia

So the current situation is this: after soliciting a third party
contributor to do a skia port, it turned out that not just is skia
needed, but in fact a specific version tied to the specific ladybird
version. In particular, the version in ports is unsuitable. And
then other dependencies like it started to crop up.

As a result I have decided to abandon porting Ladybird. It seems
like it'll be one big bundle of everything with constant maintenance
burden.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker
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