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Remember: You are expected to have the base-devel metapackage installed before using the AUR.

A note that, per Aseprite's EULA, binaries created by this PKGBUILD CANNOT BE DISTRIBUTED.

I will comply with any upstream requests to remove this package.

Big thanks to ISSOtm for rewriting the PKGBUILD!

Hosting this package's PKGBUILD at https://github.com/ImperatorStorm/PKGBUILDs

Broke after I updated recently. Errors with "aseprite: error while loading shared libraries: libnettle.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory", even if reinstalled.

I’m not sure what you mean when you say the package is using the latest commit. The source list clearly says “https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/releases/download/v1.2.18/Aseprite-v1.2.18-Source.zip”. Have I misunderstood something?

Aseprite needs both the source and compiled versions of Skia, and unless I’m mistaken, it’s hardcoded to statically link it. What benefit could come out of separating the packages, especially since only Aseprite uses this particular fork of Skia?

This is the aseprite package, it should be using the tagged release source files, not the the latest commit, that's what the -git package is for. It should also not be compiling dependencies like skia, those need to be split into a seperate package to be depended on.

I’ve just published that package under the name aseprite-skia-bin. Thanks for the help with the PKGBUILD!

Hi! It seems the author now provides the appropriate pre-built skia library, which makes building aseprite much quicker... You can find it here: https://github.com/aseprite/skia/releases. Would it be possible to support that (eventually in a different package)?

You probably don't need this but the relevant changes are the following (except I changed the -D order to match CMakeLists.txt and removed the ones that are the same as defaults):

makedepends=('cmake' 'ninja' 'git' 'freeglut')
source=("https://github.com/${pkgname}/${pkgname}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/${pkgname^}-v${pkgver}-Source.zip"
        "https://github.com/${pkgname}/skia/releases/download/m81-b607b32047/Skia-Linux-Release-x64.zip"
        "${pkgname}.desktop")

prepare() {
  :
}

build() {
  cd "${srcdir}"

  # Build aseprite
  cd "${srcdir}"
  mkdir --parents --verbose build && cd build

  cmake \
    -DUSE_SHARED_CMARK=ON \
    -DUSE_SHARED_CURL=ON \
    -DUSE_SHARED_GIFLIB=ON \
    -DUSE_SHARED_ZLIB=ON \
    -DUSE_SHARED_LIBPNG=ON \
    -DUSE_SHARED_TINYXML=ON \
    -DUSE_SHARED_FREETYPE=ON \
    -DUSE_SHARED_HARFBUZZ=ON \
    -DENABLE_UPDATER=OFF \
    -DLAF_BACKEND=skia \
    -DSKIA_DIR="${srcdir}" \
    -DSKIA_LIBRARY_DIR="${srcdir}/out/Release-x64" \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
    -G Ninja \
    ..

  ninja aseprite
}

Thanks!

The package you needed was harfbuzz-icu, not harfbuzz. I’ve updated the dependencies.

I'm constantly getting this error. Any idea on how to solve this? I've even tried installing harfbuzz separately but still the same error.

==> Starting build()...
Done. Made 60 targets from 43 files in 389ms
ninja: Entering directory `out/Release-x64'
[361/1593] compile ../../src/opts/SkOpts_sse41.cpp
In file included from ../../src/sksl/SkSLInterpreter.h:10,
                 from ../../src/opts/SkRasterPipeline_opts.h:13,
                 from ../../src/opts/SkOpts_sse41.cpp:12:
../../src/sksl/SkSLByteCode.h: In constructor ‘SkSL::ByteCode::Vector<width>::Vector(skvx::Vec<width, int>) [with int width = 8]’:
../../src/sksl/SkSLByteCode.h:91:9: note: the ABI for passing parameters with 32-byte alignment has changed in GCC 4.6
   91 |         Vector(skvx::Vec<width, int32_t> i)
      |         ^~~~~~
[587/1593] ACTION //third_party/icu:make_data_assembly(//gn/toolchain:gcc_like)
Generated gen/third_party/icu/icudtl_dat.S
[779/1593] compile ../../src/core/SkOpts.cpp
In file included from ../../src/sksl/SkSLInterpreter.h:10,
                 from ../../src/opts/SkRasterPipeline_opts.h:13,
                 from ../../src/core/SkOpts.cpp:43:
../../src/sksl/SkSLByteCode.h: In constructor ‘SkSL::ByteCode::Vector<width>::Vector(skvx::Vec<width, int>) [with int width = 8]’:
../../src/sksl/SkSLByteCode.h:91:9: note: the ABI for passing parameters with 32-byte alignment has changed in GCC 4.6
   91 |         Vector(skvx::Vec<width, int32_t> i)
      |         ^~~~~~
[1064/1593] compile ../../modules/particles/src/SkParticleEffect.cpp
In file included from ../../src/sksl/SkSLInterpreter.h:10,
                 from ../../modules/particles/include/SkParticleEffect.h:19,
                 from ../../modules/particles/src/SkParticleEffect.cpp:8:
../../src/sksl/SkSLByteCode.h: In constructor ‘SkSL::ByteCode::Vector<width>::Vector(skvx::Vec<width, int>) [with int width = 8]’:
../../src/sksl/SkSLByteCode.h:91:9: note: the ABI for passing parameters with 32-byte alignment has changed in GCC 4.6
   91 |         Vector(skvx::Vec<width, int32_t> i)
      |         ^~~~~~
[1074/1593] compile ../../modules/skshaper/src/SkShaper_harfbuzz.cpp
FAILED: obj/modules/skshaper/src/libskshaper.SkShaper_harfbuzz.o
c++ -MD -MF obj/modules/skshaper/src/libskshaper.SkShaper_harfbuzz.o.d -DSKSHAPER_IMPLEMENTATION=1 -DNDEBUG -DSK_GAMMA_APPLY_TO_A8 -DSK_SHAPER_HARFBUZZ_AVAILABLE -DSK_GL -DSK_SUPPORT_PDF -DSK_HAS_JPEG_LIBRARY -DSK_HAS_PNG_LIBRARY -DSK_CODEC_DECODES_RAW -DSK_HAS_WEBP_LIBRARY -DSK_XML -DSK_R32_SHIFT=16 -DU_USING_ICU_NAMESPACE=0 -DSK_USING_THIRD_PARTY_ICU -I../../modules/skshaper/include -I../.. -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -fstrict-aliasing -fPIC -O3 -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -Wno-unused-parameter -I /home/krona/builds/aseprite/src/skia/third_party/externals/icu/source/common -I /home/krona/builds/aseprite/src/skia/third_party/externals/icu/source/i18n -I /home/krona/builds/aseprite/src/skia/third_party/icu -std=c++17 -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -c ../../modules/skshaper/src/SkShaper_harfbuzz.cpp -o obj/modules/skshaper/src/libskshaper.SkShaper_harfbuzz.o
../../modules/skshaper/src/SkShaper_harfbuzz.cpp:33:10: fatal error: hb-icu.h: No such file or directory
   33 | #include <hb-icu.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
[1079/1593] compile ../../modules/skshaper/src/SkShaper.cpp
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

I’ve added it in.

The xorgproto package is missing from makedepends array. This is what currently happens when trying to install aseprite without xorgproto installed:

==> Starting build()...
Done. Made 60 targets from 43 files in 307ms
ninja: Entering directory `out/Release-x64'
[258/1593] compile ../../src/gpu/gl/glx/GrGLMakeNativeInterface_glx.cpp
FAILED: obj/src/gpu/gl/glx/gpu.GrGLMakeNativeInterface_glx.o
c++ -MD -MF obj/src/gpu/gl/glx/gpu.GrGLMakeNativeInterface_glx.o.d -DNDEBUG -DSK_R32_SHIFT=16 -DSK_GAMMA_APPLY_TO_A8 -DSKIA_IMPLEMENTATION=1 -DSK_GL -I../.. -fstrict-aliasing -fPIC -O3 -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -Wno-unused-parameter -std=c++17 -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -c ../../src/gpu/gl/glx/GrGLMakeNativeInterface_glx.cpp -o obj/src/gpu/gl/glx/gpu.GrGLMakeNativeInterface_glx.o
In file included from /usr/include/GL/glx.h:30,
                 from ../../src/gpu/gl/glx/GrGLMakeNativeInterface_glx.cpp:15:
/usr/include/X11/Xlib.h:44:10: fatal error: X11/X.h: No such file or directory
   44 | #include <X11/X.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
[267/1593] compile ../../src/sksl/SkSLSPIRVCodeGenerator.cpp
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
Error making: aseprite

Seems that the problem only occurs when running git clone --mirror as makepkg does. I tried running that on another machine (running Ubuntu) and it worked fine.