[webkit-gtk] How to build from release tar ball?

[Danilo Cesar]

On Wednesday 10 April 2013 14:13:44 Niranjan Rao wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I would prefer if I can download a deb package and install it, my 
> searches so far has failed. So decided to build it myself. This is on 
> ubuntu 12.10.
> 
> I downloaded the WebKitGtk+ 2.0.0 tarball from webkitgtk.org. Could not 
> figure out how to build it. If I run configure it fails with following error
> 
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.36.0... no
> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log 
> for the
> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly 
> installed.
> configure: error: You need the GLib dev tools in your path
> 
> If I try to follow instructions from 
> http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingGtk, it fails because in exploded 
> tarball, Tools/Scripts directory does not contain any of the scripts 
> mentioned.

As mentioned by the error message, you need an updated version of glib-devel.

On debian, you need to install libglib2.0-dev (version >= 2.36.0) package, probably from the unstable (or maybe experimental) repositories.

If you want to use the scripts mentioned by the trac page you need to get webkit from git or SVN.

BR
--
Danilo Cesar


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