ninja -C out/Release-x64 skia modules errors, "" needed by "", missing

Question

I am trying to install skia on my Ubuntu 22.04 lts machine, so I can use aseprite. I've done the steps listed here but I get this error:

$: ninja -C out/Release-x64 skia modules
ninja: Entering directory `out/Release-x64'
ninja: error: '../../third_party/externals/freetype/src/autofit/autofit.c', needed by 'obj/third_party/externals/freetype/src/autofit/libfreetype2.autofit.o', missing and no known rule to make it

Here is my clang version: Ubuntu clang version 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1 and cmake cmake version 3.28.2

Answer 1

you probably didn't run python tools/git-sync-deps to pull dependencies mentioned in the first step.

git-sync-deps clones the third party dependencies to third_party/externals directory. ninja is complaining that it cannot find the freetype sources in that directory.