[webkit-dev] Building on Linux

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi Krzysztof,

This is what I'm doing right now with the wx port (I have a ./build- 
wxwebkit script), and it's working pretty well for me. I'm building  
using make/gcc on Unix and Mac, and using MSVS 2005 on Win. The other  
benefit of a script is that you can integrate all the steps (e.g.  
regenerating the makefiles) into the build process so it 'just works'  
without having to remember to take certain steps each time you build  
or change a particular file.

I'd recommend that for now we just add a script such as this in  
WebKitTools/Scripts, like build-gdk-webkit, so that people can use it  
to easily build the port. I was chatting with the WebKit devs on IRC  
and it sounds like we can just update build-webkit to start the build- 
gdk-webkit script for the GDK build; this approach would allow both  
the gdk and wx ports to work with build-webkit fairly simply.  
Actually, unless someone else wants to take care of this, I could go  
ahead and take care of this myself; I'm going to do it for the wx  
build anyway.

Regards,

Kevin

On Feb 11, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Krzysztof Kowalczyk wrote:

> Current svn gdk build works. Here's a script I use to do a full build:
>
> kjk at kjkubu:~/src/webkit-tot$ more ./gdk-rebuild.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> pushd .
> cd WebKitTools/Scripts
> ./regenerate-makefiles
> cd ../../JavaScriptCore
> make clean
> make
> cd ../WebCore/Projects/gdk
> make clean
> make .DerivedSources
> make
> cd ../../../WebKitTools/GdkLauncher
> make clean
> make
> popd
>
> To run:
> kjk at kjkubu:~/src/webkit-tot$ cd WebKitTools/GdkLauncher/
> kjk at kjkubu:~/src/webkit-tot/WebKitTools/GdkLauncher$ source ENV
> kjk at kjkubu:~/src/webkit-tot/WebKitTools/GdkLauncher$ ./gdklauncher
>
> If you get a lots of compile errors, that probably means missing
> dependencies. Check that you have icu-dev installed.
>
> You have to have the latest Ubuntu 6.10 since that's the only one that
> has the required cairo version.
>
> -- kjk
>
> On 2/11/07, Rich Curtis <rich.curtis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Mark,
>>
>> Alas, I fear I have have tried everything I can think of. I'm  
>> doing this in
>> a fresh parallels ubuntu.
>>
>>
>> 1. Installed ubuntu.
>> 2. Installed gcc
>> 3. Installed svn
>> 4. Installed the missing python pieces
>> 5. Installed the bakefile version linked to in the readme.
>> 6. Followed the instructions in the readme. I am now getting the gnu
>> makefiles.
>>
>> Still no good. Lots of compile errors trying to make webcore/ 
>> projects/gdk.
>>
>> Am I missing anything? Is there a *current* tutorial on how to  
>> build webkit
>> on linux?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> RC
>>
>> On 2/11/07, Mark Rowe <bdash at webkit.org> wrote:
>> > Rich,
>> >
>> > Please take a look at the wiki page with instructions: <http://
>> > trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/wiki/BuildingGdk>.
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> >
>> > Mark Rowe
>> >
>> >
>> > On 12/02/2007, at 6:36 AM, Rich Curtis wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi WebKit Devs,
>> > > Are there any instructions anywhere on how to build WebKit for  
>> Linux?
>> > >
>> > > I'm running ubuntu 6.10.1 and got bakefile installed ok, but  
>> when I
>> > > run make
>> > > in any of the project dirs it goes looking for xcodebuild  
>> which I'm
>> > > pretty
>> > > sure is a Mac OS X utility. Am I missing some crucial step?
>> > >
>> > > I would be happy to post instructions on how to build it if I  
>> could
>> > > just
>> > > figure it out myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > >
>> > > RC
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