[webkit-qt] Cannot build QtWebKit 2.3 with latest Qt 4.8.4 on Mac

[Cheng, Bobber]

Hi all,

Thanks for Allan's and Coda's comments. I opened new bug 102057 for this issue. Attached is my patch for it. With my patch, I can successfully compile webkit23 on Mac via command 'QTDIR=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.4 nohup Tools/Scripts/build-webkit --qt --no-video -spec macx-g++'. Could you please review my patch?

Thanks,
Bobber

-----Original Message-----
From: webkit-qt-bounces at lists.webkit.org [mailto:webkit-qt-bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Allan Sandfeld Jensen
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 2:09 AM
To: webkit-qt at lists.webkit.org
Subject: Re: [webkit-qt] Cannot build QtWebKit 2.3 with latest Qt 4.8.4 on Mac

On Monday 12 November 2012, Cheng, Bobber wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I downloaded QtWebKit 2.3 from gitorious:
> https://gitorious.org/+qtwebkit-developers/webkit/qtwebkit-23/ and 
> trie to compile it on Mac OSX with latest Qt 4.8.4 (build from latest git code).
> Building failed and I found that there are many code that depend on Qt5.
> e.g. QWindow. Could anyone please kindly tell me if there are any 
> special setting to compile QtWebKit 2.3 on Mac?
> 
There are no special settings, unfortunately the branch is only tested regularly on Linux. So if you find specific problems and workarounds please open bugs for it or ask here. I can almost guarantee it is not going to work without a few build-system fixes on both Windows and Mac. The build system is the part where QtWebKit2.3 has diverged most from trunk (due to some otherwise really nice build system improvements in trunk that depend on Qt5 QMake).

Please note that QtWebKit 2.3 is not a part of any official Qt release and is not scheduled to be. It is a community Qt project to provide a more uptodate WebKit for Qt 4.x. Which means we also need your support to help develop and maintain it.

I will be happy to review any patches any one has that might help. You can also try skipping back half a month at a time and see if you can find the merge where Mac builds broke. QtWebKit2.3 was branched from trunk in early August, but has been following trunk since in twice weekly merges, with only the patches that would break it skipped or rewritten. 

Btw when opening bugs on QtWebKit2.3, you should make it block bug 88186 which tracks all QtWebKit2.3 issues.  Otherwise we are sure to miss it.

Best regards
`Allan
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