Deploy SkiaSharp on a container running .NET 6 Alpine Linux

SkiaSharp fails at runtime when deployed to an alpine linux container, using .NET 6.0 with the following error:

System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for ‘SkiaSharp.SKImageInfo’ threw an exception. —> System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load shared library ‘libSkiaSharp’ or one of its dependencies. In order to help diagnose loading problems, consider setting the LD_DEBUG environment variable: liblibSkiaSharp: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at SkiaSharp.SkiaApi.sk_colortype_get_default_8888() at SkiaSharp.SKImageInfo..cctor() — End of inner exception stack trace — at ZXing.SkiaSharp.Rendering.SKBitmapRenderer.Render(BitMatrix matrix, BarcodeFormat format, String content, EncodingOptions options) at ZXing.BarcodeWriter`1.Write(String contents)

I have tried (with no effect)

• Adding a reference to SkiaSharp.NativeAssets.Linux
• Swapping with a reference to SkiaSharp.NativeAssets.Linux.NoDepedencies
• Swapping with a reference to StoneCold.SkiaSharp.NativeAssets.AlpineLinux
• Rolling back version from 2.88.3 to 2.80.3
• Copying libSkiaSharp.so /usr/lib/
• Adding my publish directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Project file

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="SkiaSharp" Version="2.80.3" />
    <PackageReference Include="SkiaSharp.NativeAssets.Linux" Version="2.80.3" />
    ...
  </ItemGroup>

My current Dockerfile (simplified)

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:6.0 AS base
WORKDIR /app

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:6.0-alpine AS build
WORKDIR /src
COPY . .
WORKDIR "/src/Web"
RUN dotnet build "Web.csproj" -c Release -o /app/build

FROM build AS publish
RUN dotnet publish "Web.csproj" -c Release -o /app/publish -r alpine-x64 --no-self-contained

FROM base AS final
RUN apt-get update 
    && apt-get install -y libfontconfig1 fontconfig 
    && apt-get clean 
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* 
    && export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/app/publish/
WORKDIR /app
COPY --from=publish /app/publish .
COPY --from=publish /app/publish/libSkiaSharp.so /usr/lib/
ENV ASPNETCORE_URLS=http://*:5000 
ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "Web.dll"]

Any help would be appreciated.

Update: Working Solution Thanks @omajid

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:6.0-alpine AS base
WORKDIR /app

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:6.0-alpine AS build
WORKDIR /src
COPY . .
WORKDIR "/src/Web"
RUN dotnet build "Web.csproj" -c Release -o /app/build

FROM build AS publish
RUN dotnet publish "Web.csproj" -c Release -o /app/publish -r linux-musl-x64 --no-self-contained

FROM base AS final
RUN apk update 
    && apk --no-cache add icu-libs fontconfig ttf-dejavu
WORKDIR /app
COPY --from=publish /app/publish .
ENV ASPNETCORE_URLS=http://*:5000 
ENV DOTNET_RUNNING_IN_CONTAINER=true
ENV DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT=false
ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "Web.dll"]

Answer

You are targeting your application for alpine, but you are running it in the final container, which is based on base:

FROM base AS final

And base is just

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:6.0 AS base

And that’s a Debian 11 image:

$ podman run -it mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:6.0 /bin/bash
root@61566364141c:/# cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

So, you probably want to switch the base container to alpine before running it? Alternatively, target linux-x64 instead of alpine-x64?

Also, Microsoft’s recommendation is to use generic RIDs (eg, linux-musl-x64, or linux-arm64) instead of specific ones (eg alpine-x64 or rhel.8-arm64).