[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 256471] Minibrowser starts the network process but the web process crashes

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256471

--- Comment #14 from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Mero from comment #13)
> (In reply to Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez from comment #12)
> > Those binaries are intended to run inside the flatpak environment. They
> > won't run on any other distro or outside of the flatpak environment.
> 
> That is what I mean too. It may be this dependency package flatpak that I
> didn't build and it crashes the run  now. Or something else needed. I
> disabled gobject introspection, bubblewrap, and wayland since they need new
> headers, qemu and maybe other packages. However, cmake didn't stop the
> minibrowser build and it is impossible to catch all these dependencies. As
> far as I know, flatpak also may require the latest system headers to build
> and run. I read the scripts in the github, but I suppose they are only for
> the mac systems and cannot be applied.

Ok. I'm not sure what you are exactly trying to do but it looks to me it is not going to work.

I will explain briefly how to build WebKit for Linux (either WPE or WebKitGTK):

1) First about the machine: You need a really beefy machine. WebKit is huge and complex c++ software that takes ages to build. The bare minimum you need is a 4-core Intel CPU with 12GB of RAM and a SSD with at last 50GB free of disk space. With a setup like this one it would take around 4-8 hours to build. If you want to do it in less than an hour then you need at least 16 powerful cores and and 64GB of RAM.

The build system will try to use all your cores by default so you need at least 2GB of RAM free per vcore otherwise the compiler will be killed by the system or will fail with strange errors because there is not enough RAM. Anything less than that don't even try. Is not going to work.

2) Then the process of building WebKitGTK is documented here:

https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingGtk

Notice the first step is running this command: Tools/Scripts/update-webkitgtk-libs

That will download and install the flatpak SDK that you need to continue developing.

That is a container that has all the required dependencies.


So the stes are:

1. Get the flatpak SDK
$ Tools/Scripts/update-webkitgtk-libs

2. Build WebKit
$ Tools/Scripts/build-webkit --gtk

3. Run the minibrowser:
Tools/Scripts/run-minibrowser --gtk



If you want to try the WPE port just replace "--gtk" with "--wpe"

Hope it helps

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