[webkit-dev] Fwd: Q: Webkit on Windows without COM registration (as wrapped DLL only?)

[Frank Zerangue]

Hi Brent,

Can you tell what revision of webkit will build for cairo on windows?

Frank

On Jan 7, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Brent Fulgham wrote:

> Whoops!  Forgot to cc the list.  Might be of general interest.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Brent Fulgham <bfulgham at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Q: Webkit on Windows without COM
> registration (as wrapped DLL only?)
> To: Thomas Brodt <thomas.brodt at porabo.ch>
>
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Thomas Brodt  
> <thomas.brodt at porabo.ch> wrote:
>>>> One way to use Webkit on windows is the COM component which exposes
>>>> some COM Interfaces that can be used to drive Webkit (I use Brent
>>>> Fulgham's cairo based port without the Apple DLLs). This approach
>>>> seems to work quite well as far as may experiments went. However,
>>>> this COM solution requires that webkit.dll is registered with the
>>>> Windows OS. This may be an issue in managed environments where
>>>> restricted users cannot register the DLL after copying it in the
>>>> application directory, so COM won't work for them. Or if several
>>>> copies of Webkit in different version for different deployed
>>>> applications are installed on a system, this may lead to problems,
>>>> because only one path can be registered for the COM component.
>
> I'm pleased that you have managed to get the Windows/Cairo build up
> and running.  Seems like more and more people are managing to build
> and run it, which means the merging to the main WebKit system is going
> well.
>
> Recently (well, several months ago) the COM usage was changed so that
> you no longer register the DLL.  Assuming you link the DLL properly
> (and there has been some confusion about this on IRC), you should be
> able to invoke the COM objects inside your application without
> WebKit.dll having to be registered at all.  The GUID's are bound into
> the program during the manifest linking phase, and everything just
> works.  In fact, this is how the WinLauncher works with WebKit.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> -Brent
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