Building webkit - LemontechSA/TideSDK GitHub Wiki

Building WebKit

Currently, WebKit is the core component for TideSDK. It is where the HTML is interpreted and displayed.

To be able to compile on Windows, you can follow the next tutorial
From Sept 2011: http://blog.ashodnakashian.com/2011/09/building-webkit-on-windows/
Some important notes:
- On Windows 7 I had to follow the steps to make the rebaseall on cygwin as described on http://www.webkit.org/building/tools.html, please note that the ash shell has to be run from _cmd _(not from cygwin).
- The code i downloaded was directly from http://nightly.webkit.org/ inside Source section. (22MB)
- I had to modify print-vse-failure-logs (inside Tools/Scripts) line 60,

sln_path = os.path.join(**scm.find_checkout_root()**, "WebKit", "win", "WebKit.vproj", "WebKit.sln")

I replaced the scm.find_checkout_root() with "c:/cygwin/home/user/webkit/Source" (quotes included and forward slash intended).

I compiled first the apple windows port, and then the wincairo port.
Also I installed Safari and copied the dlls from C:\Program Files (x86)\Safari\Apple Application Support and C:\Program Files (x86)\Safari\ to C:\cygwin\home_user_\webkit\WebKitBuild\Release_Cairo_CFLite\bin (without overriding webkit.dll and other dlls)
To test the compilation, I added a registry like this picture http://www.cnblogs.com/xyz2abc/archive/2012/04/09/2438913.html
To test the compilation i run WinLauncher app inside C:\cygwin\home_user_\webkit\WebKitBuild\Release_Cairo_CFLite\bin
Also I tested CallJS https://github.com/bfulgham/CallJS. I used the vcproj inside the CallJS folder to compile. It generated a Debug on CallJS debug (!! this folder was added on the parent folder from the vcproj !!) copied all the files there to C:\cygwin\home_user_\webkit\WebKitBuild\Release_Cairo_CFLite\bin and then run the CallJS.exe
Other useful pages are:

sudo apt-get install libxtst-dev gtk-doc-tools