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

[Andras Becsi]

Hi,
I think the wiki should note somewhere that the script needs python2.6 
to run.

BR,
Andras

On 02/25/2010 05:07 PM, Jocelyn Turcotte wrote:
> If you tried and it didn't work, please pull from webkit and the tools
> repository.
> I just pushed some necessary patches which were lying around in my tree.
>
>
> On 2/25/2010 1:38 PM, Turcotte Jocelyn (Nokia-D/Oslo) wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> webkit-qt mailing list
> webkit-qt at lists.webkit.org
> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt