[wpe-webkit] meta-webkit WPEFramework

[mike at baseforsale.com]

Adrián,

Thank you for responding.  I was given guidance to switch to the 
meta-wpe layer.  Which I have done.  It did solve my issue with building 
wpeframework-plugins.  However, I have run into new issues.  
https://github.com/WebPlatformForEmbedded/meta-wpe/issues/284

Anyways, I will look into using downstream.

Thanks again.

I did notice the version differences between the two layers.  I will
On 2019-02-20 14:58, Adrian Perez de Castro wrote:
> Hello Mike,
> 
> First of all, sorry for not replying before — I was waiting to see if 
> someone
> else who is more in touch daily with WPEFramework would reply first. 
> I'll try
> to give you some pointers; please check the comment inline below.
> 
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:07:30 -0700, mike at baseforsale.com wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to use the WPEFramework with what is in meta-webkit?  
>> I'm
>> having issue with the wpeframework-plugins.  It is looking for
>> wpe-webkit but I have wpe-webkit-0.1. Also the header path is
>> wpe/webkit.h instead of WPE/WebKit.h
> 
> As far as *I understand*, WPEFramework is usually built with the WPE 
> WebKit
> fork at https://github.com/WebPlatformForEmbedded/WPEWebKit — and there 
> is
> a recipe in meta-webkit for it, in the “wpewebkit_downstream.bb”, so 
> you
> may want to use that instead.
> 
>> wpe-webkit is setup with the following pkgconfig from meta-webkit
>> 
>> wpe-web-extension-0.1.pc  wpe-webkit-0.1.pc
>> 
>> cmake in wpeframework-plugins is looking for
>> pkg_check_modules(PC_WPE_WEBKIT wpe-webkit)
>> 
>> pkg-config --libs wpe-webkit-0.1
>> -lWPEWebKit-0.1 -lsoup-2.4 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
>> 
>> Looking at the config I see.
>> 
>> -- Checking for module 'wpe-webkit'
>> --   No package 'wpe-webkit' found
>> -- WPEWebKit      : Not found
>> --   version      :
>> --   cflags       :
>> --   cflags other :
>> --   include dirs :
>> --   lib dirs     :
>> --   include dirs :
>> --   libs         :
>> -- Could NOT find WPE_WEBKIT (missing: WPE_WEBKIT_LIBRARIES
>> WPE_WEBKIT_INCLUDE_DIRS)
>> CMake Warning at cmake/FindWPEWebKit.cmake:77 (message):
>>    Could not find WPEFrameworkPlugins
>> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>>    WebKitBrowser/CMakeLists.txt:23 (find_package)
> 
> This probably happens because the downstream WPEWebKit repository is 
> still
> based on version 2.20.x, while by default I think that meta-webkit will 
> use
> an official 2.22.x tarball release. There is a “wpe-2.22” [1] the 
> downstream
> repository but I do not know whether WPEFramework is supposed to work 
> with
> it. Maybe someone else can shed some light here?
> 
> Like I wrote above, hopefully this points you in the good direction, 
> but
> again please keep in mind that I have not been using WPEFramework and 
> the
> notes above may be completely wrong O:-)
> 
> Don't doubt asking if you still get stuck. Oh, and we are often hanging
> out in the #webkit channel in the Freenode IRC, so feel free to stop 
> by.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> -Adrián
> 
> ---
> [1] https://github.com/WebPlatformForEmbedded/WPEWebKit/tree/wpe-2.22