On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Tim Larson <tim.lar...@proxibid.com> > 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. >
At least both of the EFL and Chromium ports are regularly maintained on FreeBSD, last I checked. -- Dirk _______________________________________________ webkit-help mailing list webkit-help@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-help