[webkit-help] Building 64 bit version of WebKit on Windows

[Brent Fulgham]

Hi Luc,

On Feb 16, 2012, at 5:57 PM, wkdev911 wrote:

> Have anyone managed to build a 64 bit Windows version of WebKit (in particular cairo port)? Could you give some advice on this?
>  
> The goal is to allow webkit.dll to be used from a 64 bit application. As far as I understand the only way is to build it as 64 bit, because of address space differences.

As I mentioned in my e-mail to you, I have not tried building WinCairo in 64-bit mode.

Since WebKit and all of the support libraries used in the WinCairo port are already being built under 64-bit operating systems, I don't think there are any fundamental barriers to doing so.

There may be parts of the WebKit Windows backend that are coded with 32-bit API calls, but this should be "a simple matter of programming" to identify and correct such instances.

The only wildcard I can think of is the pthreads library. However, I don't think there is anything fundamentally preventing this from being built for 64-bit OS.

I actually need to get this working in the medium term, so I'm excited to hear that someone else is looking into this.

Thanks,

-Brent