Installation

Pre-release. Masque is not on crates.io yet. Until it is, depend on the Git repository. TODO: the published crate name is undecided.

Requirements

• Rust 1.80 or newer.
• A platform that skia-safe supports. Masque's Skia backend builds with the vulkan and textlayout features.

Add the crate

[dependencies]
masque = { git = "https://github.com/fian-team/masque" }

Once Masque is published, this becomes:

cargo add masque

The first build is slow

skia-safe downloads a prebuilt Skia binary for your target where one exists, and otherwise compiles Skia from source. A source build takes a long time and needs Python, Ninja and a C++ toolchain. If your first build seems stuck, this is almost always why.

TODO: per-platform notes (Linux packages, macOS, Windows) and the SKIA_BINARIES_URL offline path.

Editor support

Install the language server and the VS Code extension now, so your first document has diagnostics from the start. See Editor support.