[webkit-help] WebKit Build Failed in Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition.

[Pritam Nandy]

Hi Adam/Brent,

Finally, I was able to build WebKit by individually building the projects of
components involved in building WebKit within Visual Studio 2005. Thanks a
lot, for all your feedbacks and inputs on this topic.

-Pritam.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Pritam Nandy <wrangler.torque at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Brent,
>
> Thanks for your reply. But, I've followed each and every step mentioned in
> the WebKit site very carefully. I've installed Cygwin from that site and I
> can see the "gperf.exe" file inside my Cygwin/bin folder. The Perl was
> installed as part of my Cygwin installer from this site as version 5.10.0
> and I do not have Active Perl or any other Perl for that matter. I checked
> this by typing perl --version from a command line. It is the Cygwin Perl
> that's being used. I've also tried deleting the WebKitBuild directory
> repeatedly, but I get the same error every time.
>
> Do you see any problem from the lines of log which I've posted the last
> time. I guess something's going wrong in the WebCore/WebCoreGenerated build.
> Please let me know.
>
> -Pritam.
>
>   On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Brent Fulgham <bfulgham at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Pritam,
>>
>>  On Dec 15, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Pritam Nandy wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Adam,
>>
>>  Well, the BuildLog.htm for "WebCoreGenerated" shows 0 error, 0 warning.
>> But, I could figure out this mysterious looking line from the Output Window
>> of WebCoreGenerated -
>>
>> Can't call method "fileName" without a package or object reference at
>> /home/pritam.n/WebKit/WebCore/bindings/scripts/IDLParser.pm line 110.
>> make: *** [JSSVGClipPathElement.h] Error 255
>> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>>
>> Does the above lines mean anything serious to you?
>>
>>
>> Please, please, please follow the steps on the WebKit site.   It will save
>> us all a lot of time!
>>
>> I'm guessing that you have one of the following problems:
>>
>> 1.  You did not use the WebKit installer for the Cygwin toolset, and are
>> therefore missing gperf or another utility.
>> 2.  You have ActiveState Perl in your path somewhere, and it is getting
>> picked up by Cygwin when attempting to run the build scripts.
>>
>> You might need to delete your WebKitBuild directory to make sure
>> everything is regenerated properly.
>>
>> -Brent
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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