[webkit-dev] Running the GTK port on macOS with Docker

[Philippe Normand]

On Fri, 2021-10-15 at 10:04 +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Personally, I would love a way to quickly build for GTK on my Mac, as
> for now I had to rely on pushing to the EWS, wait for compilation
> errors and fix them as I went.
> 
> So something running in docker using my local tree would be ideal.
> 

Alright, thanks for answering Jean-Yves :) I'll clean-up the experiment
a bit, document it and ping you for testing when it's ready.

Philippe

> Jean-Yves
> 
> > On 15 Oct 2021, at 1:21 am, Philippe Normand via webkit-dev
> > <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The WPE/GTK ports nowadays rely on a SDK that provides all the
> > tools
> > needed for development, it's used on the bots as well. Currently we
> > run
> > it with Flatpak, but technically, Docker can also be used.
> > 
> > I've actually checked that a GTK MiniBrowser build downloaded from
> > the
> > bots can run on macOS with Docker, that involves setting up
> > XQuartz,
> > it's not great, but for quick testing, I wonder if that could be
> > useful
> > for the Apple folks?
> > 
> > The GTK port could also be built on macOS using this docker setup,
> > the
> > SDK includes the GCC and clang versions used on the bots.
> > 
> > You can already do this with a VM, but then if you want to use the
> > SDK
> > it adds another lever of virtualization, which is not great. So
> > directly using the SDK through Docker seems more appealing, to me
> > at
> > least :)
> > 
> > WPE can't run, I haven't managed to start Weston with its X11
> > backend
> > in XQuartz... Ideally I'd prefer a native Wayland compositor for
> > macOS
> > but that doesn't seem to exist yet.
> > 
> > Anyway, please let me know if some folks are interested.
> > 
> > Philippe
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