[webkit-dev] Thought about Nix JavaScriptCore port

[Konstantin Tokarev]

10.02.2016, 05:41, "Eric Wing" <ewmailing at gmail.com>:
> On 2/7/16, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:
>>  Please try updated version of my branch, it now does not use LLVM unless you
>>  enable USE_LLVM_DISASSEMBLER.
>
> I merged your branch. That seemed to build and work.
> So what would USE_LLVM_DISAAEMBLER get me if I could build it?
> Also, are there things I can do to shrink JavaScriptCore? It's now
> over 20MB. I know ICU is a big part of that, but JSC itself seems to
> keep getting bigger too.
>
> To respond to a prior suggestion about ICU size, I am familiar with
> the data archive option. However, there are several challenges with
> that:
> - I don't know what parts JSC actually needs to know what I can safely remove
> - I don't know how ICU/JSC load the data archive. Android APK file
> semantics are pretty terrible and you have to send around a Java
> AsssetManager to access everything. Standard file library calls don't
> 'just work'.
> - I really need to build as a static library because since it is a
> private implementation detail of JSC. There are problems if somebody
> downstream of me wants to use ICU, with a potentially different
> version. If I dynamically link and use data archives, I open up a lot
> of conflict issues. Similarly, Android itself may use ICU internally
> and I've been warned of conflict problems by others. Static linking
> avoids these headaches. Also, I haven't figured out if data archive
> and static libraries are compatible.
> - I did notice Apple has a modified, stripped down version of ICU as
> part of Darwin. I was unable to figure out how to get it built. It was
> a pretty complicated Makefile.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
> P.S.
> Here is an indentation fix for my previous ICU patch.
> https://github.com/ewmailing/webkit/commit/e2c94e8b126143402b4e17cc514c4df412de5ace

I stronly suggest you to submit patches into bugzilla.

If you never did it before, you can follow steps described here:
https://github.com/annulen/webkit/wiki/How-to-submit-patches-to-webkit.org

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Regards,
Konstantin