[webkit-dev] WebKit Fails to build in XCode 3.1

[David Kilzer]

If you had a connection failure while checking out/updating Subversion, you may want to remove the entire directory that was being updated, or simply check out the source from scratch again.

An "svn stat ." command may tell you something, but sometimes svn can hork a subdirectory structure to the point where it's easier to simply remove (rm -rf) the directory and then run "svn up" again (or check out the whole source from scratch).

Dave


On Wed, 7/2/08, Samuel Davis <sjd_net at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> This problem just won't go away :-(
> 
> RE:
> ______________________________________________________
> 
> Checking Dependencies...
> ** BUILD FAILED **
> 
> The following build commands failed:
> JavaScriptGlue:
> 	CopyStringsFile
> /Users/samueljd/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release/ 
> JavaScriptGlue.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/
> 
> InfoPlist.strings English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
> (1 failure)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> When I first installed the SVN client and checked out the
> WebKit trunk  
> I was able to build without any problems.  The problems
> occurred some  
> weeks later when my internet connection went down while I
> was checking  
> out an updated WebKit trunk.  I have since deleted the old
> version of  
> WebKit trunk from my machine and checked out a spanking new
> one but  
> I'm still not able to build the target on my machine. 
> Believe you me  
> this is really frustrating mainly because I can't see
> why I can't  
> build targets anymore even with a brand new trunk.  Do I
> need to  
> update my SVN client?
> 
> While building WebKit with command-line in the Terminal,
> the output  
> shows lots of compiler commands but there is nothing in it
> that I can  
> identify as a compiler error.  So I tried a creative
> approach to  
> solving the problem by attempting to build
> JavaScriptCore.xcodeproj in  
> XCode.  The JavaScriptCore target built successfully
> without any  
> errors.  However, when I tried to build
> JavaScriptGlue.xcodeproj  
> within XCode I had numerous errors (53) as apposed to a
> single Error  
> when using the command-line.  Perhaps this suggest that
> there is some  
> inter-dependancies between the sub-projects (i.e.
> JavaScriptCore,  
> JavaScriptGlue, WebCore and WebKit) when building WebKit,
> hence the  
> reason for the build pearl script.
> 
> Here is where the command that fails is first displayed the
> Terminal:
> 
> CopyStringsFile /Users/samueljd/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release/
> 
> JavaScriptGlue.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/
> 
> InfoPlist.strings English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
>      mkdir /Users/samueljd/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release/ 
> JavaScriptGlue.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj
>      cd /Users/samueljd/WebKit/JavaScriptGlue
>     
> /Developer/Library/Xcode/Plug-ins/CoreBuildTasks.xcplugin/ 
> Contents/Resources/copystrings --validate --inputencoding
> UTF-16 -- 
> outputencoding UTF-16 English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
> --outdir /Users/ 
> samueljd/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release/JavaScriptGlue.framework/Versions/
> 
> A/Resources/English.lproj
> Usage: iconv [-c] [-s] [-f fromcode] [-t tocode] [file ...]
> or:    iconv -l
> 
> After this output, there are a lot of compiler commands
> starting with  
> CompileC but I can't see anything that looks like an
> error code or  
> output.  Strange problem indeed!
> 
> Do you know of any creative ways in which I could start
> building  
> WebKit again on my local machine?  Any suggestions would be
> much  
> appreciated :-)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
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