Mital Vora pointed me to the solution. I needed to set the environment variable WEBKITLIBRARIESDIR to point to the correct location which included the win directory, so for this was: C:\cygwin\home\Jack Wootton\WebKit\WebKitLibraries\win Many thanks, Jack On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Matt Lilek <webkit@mattlilek.com> wrote:

Did you set the WEBKITOUTPUTDIR and WEBKITLIBRARIESDIR environment variables? See http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingOnWindows#BuildingfromwithinVisualStudio

- Matt

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Jack Wootton <jackwootton@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hello,

I attempted to load the file 'WebKit\win\WebKit.vcproj\WebKit.vcproj' using Visual Studio 2005, but received the following error:

/***********************************************************************************************/ The following error has occurred during XML parsing:

File: C:\cygwin\home\Jack Wootton\WebKit\WebKit\win\WebKit.vcproj\WebKit.vcproj Line: 23 Column: 4 Error Message: Property sheet file '$(WebKitLibrariesDir)\tools\vsprops\common.vsprops' was not found or failed to load. The file 'C:\cygwin\home\Jack Wootton\WebKit\WebKit\win\WebKit.vcproj\WebKit.vcproj' has failed to load.

/***********************************************************************************************/

I searched for 'commin.vsprops' and found it in

WebKit\WebKitLibraries\win\tools\vsprops

The error message shows visual studio is looking for it in

$(WebKitLibrariesDir)\tools\vsprops\

Is the error caused by the missing 'win' directory and if so why is it missing?

Many thanks, Jack

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