Comments on: WebKit browser on Linux

By: Denilson

Denilson — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:51:05 +0000

Hey, thanks for this post! I’ve followed it and it worked perfectly in my Gentoo/Linux.

By: Benjamin Meyer

Benjamin Meyer — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:25:36 +0000

Hmm, looks like the link didn’t work. http://arora-browser.org/

By: Benjamin Meyer

Benjamin Meyer — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:24:45 +0000

I recently started a project called Arora which is a browser using QtWebKit. It provides a lot more then the QtLauncher does and can build against WebKit trunk or the already released Qt 4.4 packages. It is already good enough for most of my daily browsing and even writing this comment.

By: Message in a bottle…. » Navegador Webkit en linux

Message in a bottle…. » Navegador Webkit en linux — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:27:36 +0000

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By: frasten

frasten — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:20:23 +0000

If you have the problem of qmake v3 called instead of qmake v4 (***Unknown option -r), you can add this option to the command line:
–qmake=qmake-qt4
for example:
QTDIR=/usr/share/qt4/ WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/build-webkit –qmake=qmake-qt4

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» Safari y otros navegadores en Linux — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:44:42 +0000

[...] Los pasos para crearlo (via kryogenix y no traduzco esta parte a menos que alguien lo pida expresamente) [...]

By: movil

movil — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:13:33 +0000

When I tried to do this I got: ERROR: flex, bison, gperf missing but required to build WebKit.
So I searched and installed the required libraries and then executed again the build line:
sudo apt-get install flex gperf bison

By: bsittler

bsittler — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:28:31 +0000

i found i had to add the gperf table into HTMLDocument.cpp

gperf -CEot -L ANSI-C -k “*” -N findDoctypeEntry -F ,PubIDInfo::eAlmostStandards,PubIDInfo::eAlmostStandards > WebCore/html/HTMLDocument.cpp

end then edit the file by hand to move the gperf-generated table to a point prior to the first reference to it.

i also applied this patch to fix a problem with the wrong qmake being called:

Index: WebKitTools/Scripts/webkitdirs.pm
===================================================================
— WebKitTools/Scripts/webkitdirs.pm (revision 23560)
+++ WebKitTools/Scripts/webkitdirs.pm (working copy)
@@ -487,7 +487,8 @@
system “mkdir -p ” . baseProductDir() . “/$config”;
chdir baseProductDir() . “/$config” or die “Failed to cd into ” . baseProductDir() . “/$config \n”;

- my $result = system “qmake”, @buildArgs;
+ my $result = system “qmake-qt4″, @buildArgs;
+ $result = system “qmake”, @buildArgs if ($result ne 0);
if($result ne 0) {
die “Failed to setup build environment using qmake!\n”;
}

By: sil

sil — Sun, 27 May 2007 23:36:36 +0000

martin: 
aquarius@giles:~/code/webkit/WebKit$ svn info
Path: .
URL: http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk
Repository Root: http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit
Repository UUID: 268f45cc-cd09-0410-ab3c-d52691b4dbfc
Revision: 20788
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: bdash
Last Changed Rev: 20788
Last Changed Date: 2007-04-08 11:15:16 +0100 (Sun, 08 Apr 2007)
Properties Last Updated: 2007-04-08 03:59:28 +0100 (Sun, 08 Apr 2007)

By: martin langhoff

martin langhoff — Sun, 27 May 2007 23:23:55 +0000

I am getting the same XX has not been declared error. What commit id were things at when you built it successfully? I’ll be happy to rewind my SVN checkout to that revision number to get things to build.

(In other words, the tree seems to be broken currently :-( — is the webkit team using something like tinderbox to check their builds? )