[webkit-dev] Tips to build faster on Mac?

Maciej Stachowiak mjs at apple.com
Fri Mar 16 09:40:16 PDT 2018


You can also just cd to the WebCore directory and type make.

> On Mar 16, 2018, at 3:24 PM, youenn fablet <youennf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If you have a full build and made changes to WebCore, you might only need to recompile WebCore. With make for instance, one can do:
> make d -C Source/WebCore
> 
>   Y
> 
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 6:55 AM Danyao Wang <danyao at chromium.org <mailto:danyao at chromium.org>> wrote:
> Thanks Brian for the Xcode UI tip! So far I've always used build-webkit. I didn't realize there could be a difference.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 6:01 PM, Brian Burg <bburg at apple.com <mailto:bburg at apple.com>> wrote:
> 
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> > On Mar 15, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Danyao Wang <danyao at chromium.org <mailto:danyao at chromium.org>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Being new to WebKit development (and also switching from Linux to Mac), I find my workflow relatively clumsy. Building on a fresh checkout usually takes me 20+ minutes even on my 12-core Mac Pro. Fastest incremental builds are ~2 minutes. This adds a lot to the develop / test / debug cycle.
> 
> These build times seem normal. WebKit is a big project, and we don’t use CMake/ninja by default when building for Cocoa ports.
> 
> Are you building via build-webkit on the command line? In my experience, incremental builds are faster via Xcode’s UI.
> 
> > I heard the good folks from Igalia working on the GTK port use icecc. Has anyone used this on Mac? Any other productivity tips?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Danyao
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