[webkit-dev] Windows mobile build

[Jason Rukman]

I haven't looked at any other build solutions as the vcproj files have been working for us at the moment.  I would think leveraging an existing build configuration would be best though.

From: levin at google.com [mailto:levin at google.com] On Behalf Of David Levin
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 11:43 AM
To: KwangYul Seo
Cc: Jason Rukman; Webkit Development List
Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Windows mobile build

KwangYul, have you considered using gyp (and the files already there) rather than add another generating solution?
Jason, have you considered using gyp to generate your solution?

Disclaimer: I have no stake in gyp nor do I think it is necessarily better than anything else, but I do care about not modifying 7+ build files for any file additions/moves, etc.

dave

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Jason Rukman <JasonR at bsquare.com> wrote:
That's great news... How far away are you from getting this build toolchain working?

I want to upstream the API once I work out how we can integrate our changes; which I think means that first we need a build environment that can build our changes.

We are still working on the LayoutTests right now so I'm not sure.

-----Original Message-----
From: KwangYul Seo [mailto:kwangyul.seo at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:46 AM
To: Jason Rukman
Cc: Webkit Development List
Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Windows mobile build

Hi, Jason.

I don't think it is a good idea to add separate solution and vcproj
files for Windows Mobile.

Windows Mobile is just a small part of Windows CE. Windows CE covers
multiple CPU architectures (ARM, MIPS, ..) and platforms with varying
features. I hope the build system covers multiple configurations
easily. vcproj file is too verbose and not easy to maintain to keep
multiple configurations as we can see from Windows port.

If we are going to add a build system for Windows CE, I think we need
a more clever way to deal with this problem. I am currently working on
a build system which generates MSVS solution and vcproj files from a
build script. The sole purpose of this build system is to support
multiple Windows CE platforms and configurations from a single script.
I'd like to contribute this work once it is ready.

By the way, what is your contribution plan? Do you plan to contribute
WebKit API and layout tests?

Regards,
Kwang Yul Seo


On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Jason Rukman <JasonR at bsquare.com> wrote:
> Right now we have a windows mobile 6.x build for webkit.  I'd like to start
> merging this into the tree but wanted to get some consensus on an approach.
> We have created our own solution and vcproj files that pretty much follow
> the current solution/vcproj files for the windows cairo build configuration.
>
>
>
> Would it make sense to add a windows mobile build and solution configuration
> to the existing windows solution (with some different vsprop changes) or
> should we check in our version of the solution and project files separately
> (and where?)  I don't like the idea of a separate solution/vcproj files but
> as far as I know if we add the windows mobile configuration you need to have
> the windows mobile sdk installed to be able to open the solution.  I need to
> confirm that this is true also if you just run the build from the command
> line though.  I've had some success merging changes between vcproj files so
> it's possible this might be automated.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason.
>
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