[webkit-dev] building webkit on Vista

[Oliver Hunt]

On Jun 17, 2007, at 12:35 AM, Leslie Wu wrote:

> To throw in a single data point, while I have been able to get the  
> latest WebKit source and compile on OS X (and even get it to work  
> with http://rubyforge.org/projects/code74/) without too much  
> effort, I'm not quite there on Windows Vista.
>
> Should I be installing the Windows 2003 Platform SDK rather than  
> the MSFT-recommended Windows SDK for Vista?
>
> At the moment, I get to the point where I can run build-webkit from  
> cygwin, but Visual C++ Express 2005 seems to prematurely terminate  
> without displaying any errors at all (which would make debugging  
> this issue a wee bit easier :).
>

One thing i have noticed is that VC++ Express has a tendency to  
forget the settings you give it when setting the windows sdk paths,  
so you may want to ensure those are correct.

> ~L
--Oliver
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