This repository describes a podman/docker container that can simplify building Krita from source.
First, you'll need a copy of the Krita source tree. You can get this from the Krita website: https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop
Also, you probably want to create a "build" directory where CMake will
store its build system and generated artifacts. Krita takes a long
time to build from scratch, but reusing the build directory speeds up
the process significantly on subsequent rebuilds.
See cmake(1)
for more information.
Assuming your Krita sources are located in ./src
, your build
directory is ./build
, and the directory where you want Krita to be
installed after building is ./install
, the following command will
build Krita with the default options:
podman run -it \
--env CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$PWD/install" \
--mount type=bind,src="$PWD/src",dst=/krita/src \
--mount type=bind,src="$PWD/build",dst=/krita/build \
--mount type=bind,src="$PWD/install",dst=/krita/install \
--userns=keep-id \
localhost/krita-build
The CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
variable should contain the path where Krita will be
installed and run from. This means the final executable should end up
at "$CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/bin/krita".
After the build finishes, you should be able to run Krita:
./install/bin/krita
Invoking podman by hand is a bit of work, so there's also a run.sh
script to make this easier.