This repository allows you to compile Aseprite without installing any build tools. All that is required is Docker.

After spending hours trying to get Aseprite to compile, I decided to just make a Docker image for it

Currently the script checks out Skia version m102 and Aseprite version 1.2.40. You can easily change this in compile.sh by changing the -b flag to the desired versions.

If any of the folders of the projects folder isn't empty, the script will skip checking out the latest versions. In order to re-download, delete the according folder.

• ./dependencies/depot_tools
• ./dependencies/skia
• ./output/aseprite

• Install docker
• Clone this repository
• cd into cloned repository
• Run make build or make build-compose (The latter will use docker-compose to build the image)
• Grab a cup of coffee, since this can take quite a while (Compiling build deps, skia, and aseprite)

You can now find the compiled version of Aseprite in the output/aseprite/build/bin folder

If you get the following error when running Aseprite: ./aseprite: error while loading shared libraries: libdeflate.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, make sure you have libdeflate installed on your system. Please run sudo apt install -y libdeflate0 libdeflate-dev

If you get the following error: ./aseprite: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, you'll want to install the OpenSSL 1.1 package/library. You may have only OpenSSL 3.x installed, meanwhile Aseprite still uses the v1.1 library.

• On Arch / Arch based distros, run sudo pacman -Syu openssl-1.1
• On Ubuntu try: sudo apt install -y libssl1.1