[webkit-help] webkit-help Digest, Vol 48, Issue 3

[Brian Barnes]

On 6/10/2013 3:00 PM, webkit-help-request at lists.webkit.org wrote:
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>     1. JSC: Minimal MSVC build (Brian Barnes)
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> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:37:18 -0400
> From: Brian Barnes <ggadwa at charter.net>
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> Subject: [webkit-help] JSC: Minimal MSVC build
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> I've been using JSC inside of my free opensource 3D engine dim3 for a
> while, but I've been having problems on the windows side.  The reason is
> the unicode DLLs.  There are missing dependencies and other MS C related
> DLLs that make it fail on many machines.
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> Using the CFLite version, I have created a version that doesn't require
> the CF DLL (basically by just removing the JSStringRefCF.cpp and setting
> WTF_USE_CF to 0.)
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> I've had a lot more trouble getting rid of the IBM unicode DLLs.  On my
> iOS build, setting UCONFIG_NO_COLLATION eliminates the need to link to
> these DLLs, so I know it doable, but I haven't had much luck on the
> win32 build.
>
> Neither with removing the need for the pthread library (which I suspect
> might become more difficult on later version as I'm not sure where the
> new worker threads spawning is done -- webkit or jsc.)
>
> I am getting back into working on this.  I am sticking to my much older
> vresion, r105480 and reworking my changes (I should have written this down!)
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> My question is this.  In the later versions, has work been done anywhere
> to create a more minimal version?  I understand this would not be high
> priority for the webkit team, but a easy to compile MSVC version that
> did away with a lot of the extraneous DLLs would help a lot of us that
> are embedding the engine elsewhere.  A DLL that depended on nothing but
> itself would be great.
>
> [>] Brian
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