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Getting the source code

Method 1: From releases (recommended)

You can download the source zip from release page

Method 2: Clone from github

git clone --recursive https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite.git

Dependencies

1. Cmake (3.16 or higher)
2. Ninja Build System
3. Skia Prebuilt binaries

Installing/Setting-Up Dependencies

• Make a folder called bin in C: drive. It should look like c:/bin and paste ninja binary in it.
• Add this bin folder in PATH environment variable.
• Make another folder called c:/deps/skia and extract skia prebuilt binaries in it.

# File tree should look like this
C:/
└── deps
    └── skia
        ├── include
        ├── modules
        ├── out
        ├── src
        └── third_party

Windows Dependencies

1. Windows 10 or higher
2. Visual Studio Community
3. The Desktop development with C++ item + Windows 10/11 SDK from the Visual Studio installer

Building

Extract aseprite code in c:/aseprite
Open command prompt and run following commands.

call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat" -arch=x64
cd c:\aseprite
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DLAF_BACKEND=skia -DSKIA_DIR=C:\deps\skia -DSKIA_LIBRARY_DIR=C:\deps\skia\out\Release-x64 -DSKIA_LIBRARY=C:\deps\skia\out\Release-x64\skia.lib -G Ninja ..
ninja aseprite

Issues and Possible Fixes

’hb.h’: No such file or directory

hb (HarfBuzz) is text shaping library that puts together characters into words/sentences
So, in order to compile properly you have to change system language.

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