[webkit-dev] setup help for win32

[Sebastien Le Faou]

Thank you Justin for this information,

should be a good thing to report this bug.
But, does anybody can commit a bug?

Seb.

Justin Haygood wrote:
> webkit/win32 shouldn't need pthreads to work. If the pthreads using 
> code isn't protected by an if/else, that's a bug and should be filed 
> on bugs.webkit.org
>  
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Sebastien Le Faou <mailto:slefaou at wimba.com>
>     *To:* Mikael Tennhammar <mailto:Mikael.Tennhammar at teleca.com>
>     *Cc:* webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
>     <mailto:webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org>
>     *Sent:* Friday, April 13, 2007 9:43 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [webkit-dev] setup help for win32
>
>     Hi Mikael,
>>
>>     Hi !
>>
>>      
>>
>>     I have tried to get web kit to build on win ( in VS 2005 ). I've
>>     followed the instructions but I get following problem when compiling
>>
>>      
>>
>>     1>c:\webkit-proj\javascriptcore\wtf\tcspinlock.h(157) : fatal
>>     error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'pthread.h': No such file
>>     or directory
>>
>     In fact Win32 does not support *pthreads* because those threads
>     are defined by the POSIX standard ('pthread' = POSIX thread).
>
>     So you have to find an implementation of pthread.h for Win32. This
>     web site provide us a good solution :
>     http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
>
>     What you need here is only the files to include in visual studio
>     (as pthread.h) and the library files :
>     ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest. The *include*
>     and the *bin* are what we need.
>
>     So go on your favorite command processor and open a /ftp/
>     connection to /sourceware.org/
>
>     what I have done :
>
>     $ *mkdir* /your_path/*/include*
>     $ *cd* /your_path/*/include*
>     $ *ftp sourceware.org*
>     User (sourceware.org:(none)): *anonymous*
>     Password: /type enter/
>     *cd pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest/include*
>     *wget **
>     mget md5.sum? *y*
>     mget pthread.h? *y*
>     mget sched.h? *y*
>     mget semaphore.h? *y*
>     quit
>     $ *mkdir* /your_path/*/bin*
>     $ *cd* /your_path/*/bin*
>     $ *ftp sourceware.org*
>     User (sourceware.org:(none)): *anonymous*
>     Password: /type enter/
>     *cd pub/pthreads-win32/dll-latest/bin*
>     *wget **
>     mget libpthreadGC2.a? *y*
>     mget libpthreadGCE2.a? *y*
>     mget md5.sum? *y*
>     mget pthreadGC2.dll? *y*
>     mget pthreadGCE2.dll? *y*
>     mget pthreadVC2.dll? *y*
>     mget pthreadVC2.lib? *y*
>     mget pthreadVCE2.dll? *y*
>     mget pthreadVCE2.lib? *y*
>     mget pthreadVSE2.dll? *y*
>     mget pthreadVSE2.lib? *y*
>     quit
>         
>
>     Then we will have to notice to visual studio where this boy can
>     find these libraries and include files. ( Visual Studio 2005
>     professional edition : *Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solution
>     -> VC++ Directories* ).
>
>>     1>Project : warning PRJ0018 : The following environment variables
>>     were not found:
>>
>>     1>$(WebKitSDKDir)
>>
>>     3>$(BuildBot)
>>
>>      
>>
>     These appear to be only warning, so I don't think it is a problem,
>
>     Nevertheless, for the moment you can't build Webkit on windows,
>     there is too many bugs to fix.
>     I'm trying to to build it with QT and not with Win32 (it doesn't
>     work, but I'm pioneering the stuff).
>
>     I hope this helps.
>     If there so many details it is just because I created a little
>     documentation for my company mates, if they want to do it ;-) .
>
>     Have a good day.
>
>     Seb.
>
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