[webkit-dev] Buildsystem cleanup

[Patrick Gansterer]

Hi,

since the Chromium code is getting removed step by step I think that the GYP build system won't have a shiny future in the WebKit repository. In the GYP vs. CMake match CMake gets an additional point: There is no WebKit port working with GYP, but at least 3 with CMake. Accordantly to [1] GTK will give CMake a try too.
Adopting the Mac port does not seam to be an easy task in the near future, because of the very specific build requirements.
But what about the Windows ports? I updated the patch at [2] to work with a more recent revision. Are there any chances to use CMake instead of the VS solution files? At the moment it becomes even worst, since there are VS2005 and VS2010 files in the tree, which duplicated many files.
The patch at [2] is only an initial example, since a complete implementation would require more changes in the code. If CMake becomes an option, I'm willing to provide an "complete" patch with all CMake files.

-- Patrick

[1] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-April/024399.html
[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72816