[webkit-help] How to successfully build Webkit on Ubuntu

[Osztrogonác Csaba]

Hi,

You only need the following commands, nothing else:
- sudo Tools/gtk/install-dependencies - to install necessary packages
- Tools/Scripts/update-webkitgtk-libs - build dependencies with jhbuild
- Tools/Scripts/build-webkit --gtk - to build WebKit

Ossy

On 12/05/2013 03:04 PM, brian watson wrote:
> Hi,
>     I've only been using Linux for a few months and am trying to get
> Webkit to build on Ubuntu, but I've been having lots of problems.
>
> 1. Ubuntu 13.04 running inside VirtualBox
> 2. Downloaded the Webkit source code  from webkit.org <http://webkit.org>
> 3. I enter the following commands as well as others:
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webkit-team
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
> sudo apt-get install subversion gtk-doc-tools autoconf automake libtool
> libgtk2.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libicu-dev libxslt-dev libsoup2.4-dev
> libsqlite3-dev gperf bison flex libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libxt-dev
> autotools-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libenchant-dev libgail-dev
>
> svn checkout http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk ~/src/WebKit
>
> 4. I run the configuration command: ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
> 5. I get the following error in config.log:
> conftest.c:28:18: fatal error: glib.h: No such file or directory
> compilation terminate
>
> What I would like to do is change the makefile such that I can add a new
> or different include path so that /usr/include/glib-2.0 is picked up for
> glib.h, but I can't find the makefile involved. I see some references to
> glib.h in aclocal.m4, but the file is auto generated.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm stuck :-).
>
>
> Thanks,
>     Brian