On Feb 12, 2011, at 7:32 AM, Nimish Nayak wrote: > I successfully built webkit (cairo's Windows Port). I faced a few issues > while Building webkit primarily linking issues but thanks to Adam Roben who > guided me that Microsoft Visual Studios 2005 Express Edition fails to link to > the standard libraries sometimes so its best to include them . So adding > these libraries solved the issue and webkit was successfully built. > > I now face mainly these issues > > 1) There is Apple's Windows Port and Cairo's Windows Port But i dont know > much about these two . How one is different from another basically one is > using apple proprietary software and other is on open sourced versions but i > wanted to know more in detail. Can someone guide me in this respect.
Apple's Windows port is used by Safari. It depends on Apple-specific technologies such as CoreGraphics, QuickTime, etc. The Cairo/libcurl/CFLite port is not used by any browser. Brent Fulgham is the de facto maintainer of the port, and I believe his employer uses it. It is not as fleshed out as Apple's Windows port, but seems to meet Brent's needs. > 2) I have compiled using the Source found in the nightly's ie. WebKit r78038 > But on the Webkit.org site under getting the source they are recommending > http://nightly.webkit.org/files/WebKit-SVN-source.tar.bz2 which is 900 MB as > compared to the previous 16 MB one.? So did i compile the right one ? The latter file is a full Subversion working directory (i.e., it contains all the .svn directories from a Subversion checkout). It's meant for bootstrapping your own Subversion checkout. It shouldn't matter which one you use for building. > 3)I am using WinLauncher which is the test browser for trying out my new > build, by setting it as the active project if i want to extend the JavaScript > using JSCore Extensions then am i supposed to do it in VS2005 (with other > projects) or can i just copy the folders in tools\ and obj\ and save it > separately in another drive and compile it.? I'm not sure I understand this question. -Adam
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