[wpe-webkit] MiniBrowser installable package?

[Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez]

On 26/04/2021 17:37, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Now that Imanol's great WebXR work is bearing fruit I would like to
> test it on my system, unfortunately I don't have the space required to
> build WebKit-WPE on my main desktop, but no fear I have a really fast
> server. The problem there is that the server doesn't have a GPU,
> trying the run-wpe-x11 script yeilds: ** (MiniBrowser:21): WARNING **:
> 08:36:12.215: WindowViewBackend: cannot yet handle
> wpe_fdo_shm_exported_buffer.
> 
> So I was looking for a way to take what I have built and install it on
> my machine, maybe via flatpak? Is that possible? Any pointers are
> greatly welcomed.
> 


I think it should work if you simply copy the whole WebKitBuild
directory from your server to your PC (with something like rsync) and
then use then simply script run-minibrowser to start WPE.

On the other hand, if you are interested in running WPE on a server that
doesn't have a GPU that is possible with Xvfb+x11vnc+mesa-llvmpipe.

1. Take this script : http://sprunge.us/YjQ8Pv
2. Run it like ./start-xvfb-vnc.sh 2176
3. Connect a VNC client to server.ip.ad.dres:2176
4. Run WPE with the run-wpe-x11 script after exporting DISPLAY=:2176


Hope this helps

Regards