Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin
At this point, I am at a total loss as I have yet to be able to build anything. Well, you got the error message. At the risk of pointing the obvious, I would say just trace the error message to find out where it fails. perl C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/pcre/dftables tmp\chartables.c --preprocessor=cl /E Error in tempfile() using \tmp\dftables-.in: Parent directory (\tmp\) is not a directory at Something is wrong with your Perl. What if you create the directory C:\tmp manually first? A side note: if you just want to give QtWebKit a try, why don't you use Qt 4.4? It has WebKit integration already (no need to build it if you use binary package). Refer to the following for details: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qt4-4-intro.html http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qtwebkit.html Best regards, -- Ariya Hidayat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software Engineer, Trolltech (a Nokia company) ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin
I can assure you I've spent quite a bit of time attempting to debug and build. Again I'm following the instructions on http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnWindows as instructed by other responders to my post. There is a specific error that occurs prior to the build aborting. The problem involves rcc.exe. For example, I get an error like: c:\Projects\qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.1=bin\rcc.exe: File does not exist '..\..\..\WebCore\page\inspector\WebKit.qrc' Note that the file does indeed exist in the correct path. I have search on the internet for this type of error and have found posts on a couple forums where people (like me) attempting to build under Windows have seen this problem. Unfortunately, those posts are never answered. Again, the reason I am trying to build the source is as part of some research I am doing to see if WebKit is something we can use in the development of a thin client for a new product we are developing. I should also add that the build generates other errors later on in the file ..\..\..\JavaScriptCore\wft\Assertions.h. It complains of unexpected characters in certain macros formal parameter list. I apologize if I appear to be beating a dead horse, but I was hoping if I could at least build this stuff, I could begin digging into learning how it works. Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ariya Hidayat Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 3:22 AM To: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin At this point, I am at a total loss as I have yet to be able to build anything. Well, you got the error message. At the risk of pointing the obvious, I would say just trace the error message to find out where it fails. perl C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/pcre/dftables tmp\chartables.c --preprocessor=cl /E Error in tempfile() using \tmp\dftables-.in: Parent directory (\tmp\) is not a directory at Something is wrong with your Perl. What if you create the directory C:\tmp manually first? A side note: if you just want to give QtWebKit a try, why don't you use Qt 4.4? It has WebKit integration already (no need to build it if you use binary package). Refer to the following for details: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qt4-4-intro.html http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qtwebkit.html Best regards, -- Ariya Hidayat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software Engineer, Trolltech (a Nokia company) ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin
Hi Mark, First of all I tried the Apple build by unsetting the QTDIR environment variable. It got a little farther but died in various places. However, I decided to abandon that build and attempt the QT per the instructions at http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnWindows. It also fails, although differently. The following is the build output. Please not my source tree in my cygwin directory structure, but I was not building in a cygwin shell. That's just where the source was from my previous build attempts using cygwin. Also note the initial The system cannot find the path specified error is due to a reference to /dev/null in a perl script within a system call. At this point, I am at a total loss as I have yet to be able to build anything. The system cannot find the path specified. Calling 'qmake CONFIG+=qt-port -r OUTPUT_DIR=C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKit.pro CONFIG+=release CONFIG-=debug' in C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release c:\Projects\qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.1\bin\rcc.exe: File does not exist '..\..\..\WebCore\page\inspector\WebKit.qrc' c:\Projects\qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.1\bin\rcc.exe: File does not exist '..\..\..\WebCore\Resources\WebKitResources.qrc' c:\Projects\qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.1\bin\rcc.exe: File does not exist '..\..\..\WebCore\platform\qt\WebCoreResources.qrc' c:\Projects\qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.1\bin\rcc.exe: File does not exist '..\..\..\WebCore\page\inspector\WebKit.qrc' c:\Projects\qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.1\bin\rcc.exe: File does not exist '..\..\..\WebCore\Resources\WebKitResources.qrc' c:\Projects\qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.1\bin\rcc.exe: File does not exist '..\..\..\WebCore\platform\qt\WebCoreResources.qrc' Reading C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/JavaScriptCore.pro [C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release//JavaScriptCore ] Reading C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebCore/WebCore.pro [C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release//WebCore] Reading C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/kjs/jsc.pro [C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release//JavaScriptCore /kjs] Reading C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKit/qt/QtLauncher/QtLauncher.pro [C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release//WebKit/qt/QtLa uncher] Reading C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKit/qt/tests/tests.pro [C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release//WebKit/qt/test s] Reading C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKit/qt/tests/qwebframe/qwebframe. pro [C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release/WebKit/qt/tests //qwebframe] Reading C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKit/qt/tests/qwebpage/qwebpage.pr o [C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release/WebKit/qt/tests //qwebpage] Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. cd JavaScriptCore\ C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\nmake.exe -f Makefile Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\nmake.exe -f Makefile.Release Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. perl C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/pcre/dftables tmp\chartables.c --preprocessor=cl /E Error in tempfile() using \tmp\dftables-.in: Parent directory (\tmp\) is not a directory at C:/cygwin/home/Administrator/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/pcre/dftables line 245 NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\Perl\bin\perl.EXE' : return code '0x2' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\nmake.exe' : return code '0x2' Stop. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2' Stop. -Original Message- From: Mark Rowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 4:01 PM To: Lautenbach Frank SOFTECHNICS Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Development Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin On Sep 9, 2008, at 12:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok ... but the Windows build requires me to be in cygwin for other reasons. I guess I'm basically trying to confirm that as it stands today, you cannot build Qt Windows port as specified on webkit.org due to cygwin not supporting the required version of qt. If you want to build the Qt port on Windows, you should follow the instructions at http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnWindows. As I mentioned previously, the instructions at http://webkit.org/building/build.html are related to building Apple's Windows port rather than the Qt port. Kind regards, Mark Rowe ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http
Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin
Hi Mark, I'm following the instructions given on the WebKit website to checkout and build the source: http://webkit.org/building/checkout.html http://webkit.org/building/build.html Note that I am primarily Windows developer (with some Unix/Linux experience) making a leap to the world of Web/Open Source here, so I'm not that familiar with Qt, qmake, etc. I was given the task of researching WebKit and decided to, minimally get the source, build it and see what I come up with. The WebKit.org site is very inadequate in regards to a good overview of WebKit, in my humble opinion, so I feel a bit lost and frustrated at this time. Frank -Original Message- From: Mark Rowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 10:08 PM To: Lautenbach Frank SOFTECHNICS Cc: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin On Sep 8, 2008, at 12:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm new to WebKit, having been given the project of investigating it's use in an upcoming project. I'm having problems getting the source and building it. I'm attempting to build on a Windows platform. I have all the tools specified on webkit.org. I was finally able to checkout all the source, but the site says an update should be done. When I perform the update-webkit command, it fails. There's a long error message like Can't locate HTTP/Date.pm in INC (INC contains: ..) And then I get Died at WebKit/WebKitTools/ Scripts/update-webkit line 71. Note, the reason I did the update was because I tried to do the build-webkit after I got the source but it fails. Basically, qmake is not found in the /usr/bin cygnwin path, but in /usr/lib/qt3/bin. After fixing the path, qmake still dies because it gets passed a - r option which it complains as being an invalid option. I then thought maybe the update would help. Does anyone have any thoughts? Which port of WebKit are you trying to build? The fact that you're seeing errors related to qmake suggest that you're trying to build the Qt port. Is that the case? - Mark ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin
Mark, I should add that the ultimate goal of my research is to try to determine if we can use WebKit to build a client running on a Windows CE device. I was told WebKit would provide a framework or skeleton for a browser that we could customize to access peripherals on handheld devices like barcode scanners, portable printers, magstripe readers. We are currently trying to determine whether to go thin client or thick client. There are commercial browsers available but they involve licensing. The thought was that the open source WebKit would allow us to write our own thin client. Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin Hi Mark, I'm following the instructions given on the WebKit website to checkout and build the source: http://webkit.org/building/checkout.html http://webkit.org/building/build.html Note that I am primarily Windows developer (with some Unix/Linux experience) making a leap to the world of Web/Open Source here, so I'm not that familiar with Qt, qmake, etc. I was given the task of researching WebKit and decided to, minimally get the source, build it and see what I come up with. The WebKit.org site is very inadequate in regards to a good overview of WebKit, in my humble opinion, so I feel a bit lost and frustrated at this time. Frank -Original Message- From: Mark Rowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 10:08 PM To: Lautenbach Frank SOFTECHNICS Cc: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin On Sep 8, 2008, at 12:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm new to WebKit, having been given the project of investigating it's use in an upcoming project. I'm having problems getting the source and building it. I'm attempting to build on a Windows platform. I have all the tools specified on webkit.org. I was finally able to checkout all the source, but the site says an update should be done. When I perform the update-webkit command, it fails. There's a long error message like Can't locate HTTP/Date.pm in INC (INC contains: ..) And then I get Died at WebKit/WebKitTools/ Scripts/update-webkit line 71. Note, the reason I did the update was because I tried to do the build-webkit after I got the source but it fails. Basically, qmake is not found in the /usr/bin cygnwin path, but in /usr/lib/qt3/bin. After fixing the path, qmake still dies because it gets passed a - r option which it complains as being an invalid option. I then thought maybe the update would help. Does anyone have any thoughts? Which port of WebKit are you trying to build? The fact that you're seeing errors related to qmake suggest that you're trying to build the Qt port. Is that the case? - Mark ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin
Aryia, Thanks for the response. Something is still confusting to me. When I follow the instructions to get and build WebKit from the main WebKit.org page, what exactly am I building? Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ariya Hidayat Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:35 AM To: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin I should add that the ultimate goal of my research is to try to determine if we can use WebKit to build a client running on a Windows CE device. This one might be interesting for you: http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/08/27/webkit-on-windows-ce/ Note that I am primarily Windows developer (with some Unix/Linux experience) making a leap to the world of Web/Open Source here, so I'm not that familiar with Qt, qmake, etc. I was given the task of researching WebKit and decided to, minimally get the source, build it and see what I come up with. The WebKit.org site is very inadequate in regards to a good overview of WebKit, in my humble opinion, so I feel a bit lost and frustrated at this time. WebKit is a large (high-profile) project. Even for experienced developers, it might take a while until you manage to understand it. This means, you must be ready to invest some serious time and effort. Anyway, from the previous error message that you posted, seems you want to build QtWebKit on Cygwin and Qt3. There is no way this is going to be a success. Try to find out more about QtWebKit and you will find the answers. BTW, hundreds have successfully built QtWebKit on Linux and Windows by following these instructions: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnLinux http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingQtOnWindows -- Ariya Hidayat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software Engineer, Trolltech (a Nokia company) ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin
On Sep 9, 2008, at 8:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response. Something is still confusting to me. When I follow the instructions to get and build WebKit from the main WebKit.org page, what exactly am I building? WebKit that works with Safari. On Windows, a WebKit that works with Safari for Windows. Other ports include the Qt port and the GTK port. -- Darin ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin
Apparently that's not what I want then. It is still curious that I can't seem to build it under cygwin (as per the instructions.) Perhaps this is due to the fact that after I got the source, the update command doesn't succeed. It always fails at some point, so maybe the tree is not being updated completely for a proper build. I did download the nightly build the other day and noticed that after all was said and done, running it simply called Safari.exe (which I had to install) and passed it a command line parameter pointing to the downloaded webkit. I take it this is calling Safari and over-riding the default engine Safari.exe was built with using the one referenced on the command line. In other words, this allows for customization of Safari.exe? Thank you all for you patience with my newbie questions. -Original Message- From: Darin Adler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:05 PM To: Lautenbach Frank SOFTECHNICS Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin On Sep 9, 2008, at 8:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response. Something is still confusting to me. When I follow the instructions to get and build WebKit from the main WebKit.org page, what exactly am I building? WebKit that works with Safari. On Windows, a WebKit that works with Safari for Windows. Other ports include the Qt port and the GTK port. -- Darin ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin
On Sep 9, 2008, at 11:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently that's not what I want then. It is still curious that I can't seem to build it under cygwin (as per the instructions.) Perhaps this is due to the fact that after I got the source, the update command doesn't succeed. It always fails at some point, so maybe the tree is not being updated completely for a proper build. The error mentioned in your initial email indicates that the build- webkit script had detected that you were attempting to build the Qt Windows port rather than the Apple Windows port. It failed to build the Qt Windows port due to having an older version of Qt installed than what WebKit requires to build. You can force it to build the Apple Windows port, which the instructions on webkit.org are aiming to build, by unsetting the QTDIR environment variable before running build-webkit. I did download the nightly build the other day and noticed that after all was said and done, running it simply called Safari.exe (which I had to install) and passed it a command line parameter pointing to the downloaded webkit. I take it this is calling Safari and over-riding the default engine Safari.exe was built with using the one referenced on the command line. In other words, this allows for customization of Safari.exe? Safari is set up to allow an updated version of WebKit to be used with it, yes. This is for the purpose of testing new WebKit versions and is not a supported mechanism for extending Safari.exe. Kind regards, Mark Rowe ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin
If you are building for Qt 4, do not use cygwin. Use the Windows native qmake to build. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin Mark, That's interesting because on a Windows machine you have to use cygwin, but cygwin supports qt3 only. I take it from your remark that qt4 is required. Therefore, it is not possible build for Windows. (By the way, I don't know how the QTDIR environment variable got set. The cygwin installation did not set it because I have another machine with cygwin that doesn't have that environment variable.) So, you're saying I can force an Apple build, but that does me no good because I have a Windows machine. Frank -Original Message- From: Mark Rowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:43 PM To: Lautenbach Frank SOFTECHNICS Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin On Sep 9, 2008, at 11:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently that's not what I want then. It is still curious that I can't seem to build it under cygwin (as per the instructions.) Perhaps this is due to the fact that after I got the source, the update command doesn't succeed. It always fails at some point, so maybe the tree is not being updated completely for a proper build. The error mentioned in your initial email indicates that the build- webkit script had detected that you were attempting to build the Qt Windows port rather than the Apple Windows port. It failed to build the Qt Windows port due to having an older version of Qt installed than what WebKit requires to build. You can force it to build the Apple Windows port, which the instructions on webkit.org are aiming to build, by unsetting the QTDIR environment variable before running build-webkit. I did download the nightly build the other day and noticed that after all was said and done, running it simply called Safari.exe (which I had to install) and passed it a command line parameter pointing to the downloaded webkit. I take it this is calling Safari and over-riding the default engine Safari.exe was built with using the one referenced on the command line. In other words, this allows for customization of Safari.exe? Safari is set up to allow an updated version of WebKit to be used with it, yes. This is for the purpose of testing new WebKit versions and is not a supported mechanism for extending Safari.exe. Kind regards, Mark Rowe ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin
On Sep 9, 2008, at 12:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, you're saying I can force an Apple build, but that does me no good because I have a Windows machine. Apple's Windows port runs on Windows, so you're in a good position to build it. - Mark ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin
The Qt4/Windows build does not require Cygwin normally. I don't even have Cygwin, and I can build the Qt4 WebKit just fine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: RE: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin Ok ... but the Windows build requires me to be in cygwin for other reasons. I guess I'm basically trying to confirm that as it stands today, you cannot build Qt Windows port as specified on webkit.org due to cygwin not supporting the required version of qt. -Original Message- From: Justin Haygood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:26 PM To: Lautenbach Frank SOFTECHNICS; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: RE: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin If you are building for Qt 4, do not use cygwin. Use the Windows native qmake to build. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin Mark, That's interesting because on a Windows machine you have to use cygwin, but cygwin supports qt3 only. I take it from your remark that qt4 is required. Therefore, it is not possible build for Windows. (By the way, I don't know how the QTDIR environment variable got set. The cygwin installation did not set it because I have another machine with cygwin that doesn't have that environment variable.) So, you're saying I can force an Apple build, but that does me no good because I have a Windows machine. Frank -Original Message- From: Mark Rowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:43 PM To: Lautenbach Frank SOFTECHNICS Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit and Windows/Cygwin On Sep 9, 2008, at 11:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently that's not what I want then. It is still curious that I can't seem to build it under cygwin (as per the instructions.) Perhaps this is due to the fact that after I got the source, the update command doesn't succeed. It always fails at some point, so maybe the tree is not being updated completely for a proper build. The error mentioned in your initial email indicates that the build- webkit script had detected that you were attempting to build the Qt Windows port rather than the Apple Windows port. It failed to build the Qt Windows port due to having an older version of Qt installed than what WebKit requires to build. You can force it to build the Apple Windows port, which the instructions on webkit.org are aiming to build, by unsetting the QTDIR environment variable before running build-webkit. I did download the nightly build the other day and noticed that after all was said and done, running it simply called Safari.exe (which I had to install) and passed it a command line parameter pointing to the downloaded webkit. I take it this is calling Safari and over-riding the default engine Safari.exe was built with using the one referenced on the command line. In other words, this allows for customization of Safari.exe? Safari is set up to allow an updated version of WebKit to be used with it, yes. This is for the purpose of testing new WebKit versions and is not a supported mechanism for extending Safari.exe. Kind regards, Mark Rowe ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
