[webkit-dev] Building Webkit on Windows

[Alex Christensen]

Rakesh, you are building the AppleWin port of WebKit, which only has 32-bit binaries available, but you probably want to use the WinCairo port because the license of WebKitSupportLibrary.zip says you’re not allowed to redistribute it.  To build the WinCairo port, you will need to run update-webkit --wincairo and build-webkit --wincairo --64-bit.

This is not the source of your build failure, though.  It looks like you have your gperf executable inside of C:\Program Files… somewhere, and I believe we have never had anyone build WebKit with a configuration like this.  I think the solution is to put quotes around the %s at the very end of Source/WebCore/platform/network/create-http-header-name-table.  There might be a few more places where this is needed.  Could you please file a bug a bugs.webkit.org with a patch if you get it working?

> On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:01 AM, Rakesh Sadhu <rakeshsadhu at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Thomas, 
> Thank for your  answer .
> However my build suddenly fails and I notice , its creating 32 bit binaries .
> I am attaching a build log file here .
> 
> regards
> RSadhu
> 
> 
> To: achristensen at apple.com
> From: thomas.brodt.lists at porabo.ch
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:15:06 +0100
> CC: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Building Webkit on Windows
> 
> Hi Alex
> 
> thank you for your prompt answer. That is good news because in the past I had different difficulties in setting up a functional environment with several trial and error steps inbetween, although I tried to exactly follow the installation guide. I tend to create a virtual machine for a reliable building environment, so with my next one I will try without the cygwin installation. 
> 
> We use Webkit via COM interface on Windows in our application here, so I build rather infrequently, and with a working build, we then can live for some time. But for our use we would need 32bit dependencies, and if I understood correctly, there are currently only 64bit available. That doesn't matter at the moment, but when I am ready for our next build, I would ask again if you don't mind.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Am 25.02.2016 um 19:17 schrieb Alex Christensen:
> That also applies to the WinCairo port.  I don’t think you’ll need GNU Make any more now that we use CMake for Windows.  You also shouldn’t need to install iTunes to build and run WinCairo.  With WinCairo, you will also need the WinCairoDependencies.zip which you can get by running Tools/Scripts/update-webkit-wincairo-libs.  Right now, only the 64-bit dependencies are included in that zip, but let me know if you need 32-bit dependencies.  They are from  <https://github.com/peavo/WinCairoRequirements>https://github.com/peavo/WinCairoRequirements <https://github.com/peavo/WinCairoRequirements>  Then you should be able to build with Tools/Scripts/build-webkit --wincairo --64-bit
> 
> We really should update the instructions on webkit.org <http://webkit.org/> 
> On Feb 25, 2016, at 12:17 AM, Thomas Brodt <thomas.brodt.lists at porabo.ch <mailto:thomas.brodt.lists at porabo.ch>> wrote:
> 
> Does this also apply for the WinCairo port? Or does this port still require cygwin?
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Am 24.02.2016 um 20:32 schrieb Alex Christensen:
> Those instructions are out of date.  The most up-to-date instructions about building on Windows are  <http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WindowsWithoutCygwin>http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WindowsWithoutCygwin <http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WindowsWithoutCygwin>
> 
> On Feb 24, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Myles C. Maxfield <mmaxfield at apple.com <mailto:mmaxfield at apple.com>> wrote:
> 
> What is the error you are seeing?
> 
> On Feb 24, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Rakesh Sadhu <rakeshsadhu at hotmail.com <mailto:rakeshsadhu at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Hello ,
> I am trying to build webkit on Windows .
> I am following  steps from  <https://webkit.org/building-webkit-on-windows/>https://webkit.org/building-webkit-on-windows/ <https://webkit.org/building-webkit-on-windows/>
> However I am unable to find a way to build webkit using MSVS2015 or  Cygwin .
> Can anyone guide here please?
> regards
> RSadhu
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