make use of nativeaot static linking feature

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. it is now possible to static link native libraries inside the main binary so it should be possible to do that to the 2 native dlls from avalonia’s native aot output, namely libHarfBuzzSharp.dll and libSkiaSharp.dll.

Describe the solution you’d like include the static library files of those 2 dlls instead and use DirectPInvoke and NativeLibrary.

Additional context https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/blob/feature/NativeAOT/docs/using-nativeaot/interop.md#linking

[maxkatz6]

It should be optional, as it works only with native AOT. I suppose ideal plan would be something like:

• Include lib/a files into our nuget packages. Including Skia and Angle
• Add new msbuild option to enable avalonia libs static linking
• In the msbuild targets files include <NativeLibrary> and DirectPInvoke items if avalonia static linking is enabled
• Exclude dll/so files from the output if avalonia static linking is enabled

[ivanjx]

you can build skia for other platforms if you look inside the cake files. here is the ones for windows that i use as reference: https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp/blob/main/native/windows/build.cake

for harfbuzz you can use this and open in visual studio. there is some settings to change to enable static build but i forgot which: https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp/tree/main/native/windows/libHarfBuzzSharp

reference about the build commands: https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp/wiki/Building-on-Linux