[webkit-qt] Debugging QtWebKit on S60 devices through Carbide

[Jocelyn Turcotte]

Yes this might help, there it is: 
https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnSymbian

On 2/25/2010 1:46 PM, ext Kenneth Christiansen wrote:
> Shouldn't this be on the wiki?
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> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Jocelyn Turcotte
> <jocelyn.turcotte at nokia.com>  wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> as some of you might have noticed, trying to compile WebKit with debugging
>> information for S60 using RVCT will result in armlink crashing out of
>> memory.
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>> Lars did some hacking around source files two weeks ago and he was able to
>> complete a debug build by compiling multiple .cpp files at once to reduce
>> the total size of object files to link. Proper debugging of WebKit on the
>> device through Carbide is then now possible.
>>
>> You can get a python script that achieve the same process from the QtWebKit
>> tool git repository that will get the list of sources generated by qmake,
>> create aglomerate source files which include other source files and tell
>> raptor to compile these files instead (abld is currently not supported)
>>
>> How you can get similar results:
>> - Get a clone of http://gitorious.org/qtwebkit/tools ( git
>> clone git://gitorious.org/qtwebkit/tools.git qtwebkit-tools)
>> - Initialize the build normally using qmake or running perl
>> WebKitTools\Scripts\build-webkit --debug
>> - Run the debug-webkit-patch-sbsv2.py script from tools clone in your WebKit
>> directory
>> - sbs -c armv6_udeb -j4
>>
>> The script contains a list of files that should be compiled alone to prevent
>> duplicate static symbols definition or includes of incompatible headers. It
>> also tries to limit the number of files that gets compiled together since if
>> the file gets too big, it's armcc that start crashing for non-obvious
>> reasons. So if you have problems with a specific file that don't want to
>> compile, you may be able to make it work by hacking the script.
>>
>> If the script allow stable and useful enough results it might be nice to
>> later call it automatically from build-webkit.
>>
>> Jocelyn
>>
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