On 11/11/15 11:15, Sergio Villar Senin wrote: > On 11/11/15 08:04, Yusuke SUZUKI wrote: >> Hello WebKittens, >> >> JavaScriptCore use in non-OSX environment looks emerging[1]. >> In addition to that, sometimes, people would like to build >> JavaScriptCore to see what is happning in JavaScriptCore development[2]. >> However, if you don't have an OSX machine, it is a little bit difficult. >> One possible solution is GTK+ port, it is nice way to build JSC in Linux. >> But it involves many dependencies (Mesa, glib etc.), that are not >> necessary for JavaScriptCore and this is a barrier to join JSC >> development from non OSX world. > > The gtk port has several external dependencies as any other port and > indeed most of them are not needed for building JSC. However I don't see > those dependencies being a barrier, mainly because we build them using a > jhbuild environment, so even if your distro don't provide the required > dependencies you could build them with Tools/Scripts/update-webkitgtk-libs.
BTW, as KaL points out on irc, we could teach our build scripts to not build all the dependencies when building JSC only. I shouldn't be difficult to create a update-jsc-libs as I think glib should be the only dependency of WTF and JSC. BR _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
