On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Tim Larson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi! I'm new to Webkit. I am using NetBSD as my development platform. > What I'm trying to do, which I thought would be fairly simple, is just > build Webkit as a shared library, so that I can experiment with all the > different front-ends using the same engine. I have updated all scripts to > have the correct path to perl on my system. > > When I run the build-webkit script, it finishes in 0:00 and doesn't seem > to do a thing. Stepping through the script in the debugger, it appears that > I have to specify a port. The building/build.html page does not make this > clear at all. Maybe build-webkit could throw a message if none of the port > options are supplied. > That sounds sensible thing to do. Having it set this way makes me question whether what I am trying to do is > even possible, however. Forcing selection of a specific port seems to > discourage it. > WebKit isn't designed to be a standard alone library that can be built on any system. By design, one has to create a "port" that supplies OS-specific bits and pieces in Source/WebCore/platform and Source/WebKit. If one of existing ports build on FreeBSD, then that's great but I'm not certain if any of them will. - R. Niwa
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