How to enable Skia on Linux ?

[Luboš Luňák]

On Monday 31 of August 2020, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 02:06:09AM -0700, julien2412 <serval2412 at yahoo.fr> 
wrote:
> > I build LO from master sources on pc Debian x86-64. To try to retrieve
> > some debug info for Skia related bugtracker, I added
> > "--enable-skia=debug" on my autogen.input, then runned "make clean &&
> > make".
> > However, I can't succeed in enabling Skia on Linux.
>
> It's disabled by default on Linux, at runtime. Try:
>
> SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen SAL_FORCESKIA=1 ./soffice.bin
>
> For more info, see vcl/README.vars, Lubos wrote a section on Skia there.

 Just for the record, while the above works, it's not the proper way to do it, 
as it skips the wrapper script, and it needlessly forces Skia. The proper way 
would be
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen SAL_ENABLESKIA=1 ./soffice

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