[webkit-dev] Moving away from qmake

[Charles Woloszynski]

Ok, thanks for the feedback.  I have had some issues with the cross- 
compilation of WebKit (dftables being built for the cross-platform,  
not the native platform).  Any chance I can get someone doing the  
WebKit Qt port to address this?  I don't know qmake well enough to  
make the changes.  The defect was there two weeks ago, and I don't  
think I've seen any changes in that area since...

Charlie

On Nov 12, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Simon Hausmann wrote:

> On Monday 12 November 2007 14:00:31 Charles Woloszynski wrote:
>> I am working on a port of WebKit on Qt to a PowerPC platform.  Please
>> make sure that we don't break the Qt port in this switch.  I am
>> comfortable with autotools, so that is not a big deal for me.  I am
>> concerned, however, that this will cause a fork with the work being
>> done by the Trolltech folks (since I think that they are primarily
>> qmake-promoters).
>>
>> Can we get some feedback from Trolltech on their ability to accept a
>> switch to autotools for Webkit/Qt so we can switch to one new engine
>> for all these ports?
>
> Trolltech is likely to continue to use the qmake based build system  
> for now.
> That is because we are working on integrating WebKit into the build  
> of Qt
> itself (which is built using qmake) and we need to be able to build  
> WebKit
> without cygwin or bash installed on Windows.
>
> Simon
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Charles Woloszynski
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