Re: Webkit for GNUstep

[Chris Vetter]

On 2006-08-03 22:05:56 +0200 Billy Tallis <wtallis@gmail.com> wrote:
> You need to write makefiles for everything. It is not an easy task. I
> have been able to get most of JavaScriptCore to compile, but I don't
> have access to a Mac with Xcode to figure out the rest. The
> alternative would be to write a gnustep equivalent of pbtomake.

Check the *.bkl files as well to figure out what needs to be done.

> Since most distributions have gcc 4.1 now, (and consequently can have
> objc++) it would be good to start a new effort to port WebKit. My
> preference would be to do this with as little modification to the
> apple sources as possible, but that leaves us with needing to add some
> CoreFoundation classes to gnustep-base. Most of those can be handled
> using the @compatibility_alias directive.

With a clever use of GNUmakefiles you can compile the complete 
JavaScriptCore with just one change in wtf/Platform.h ... But yes, you 
DO need CoreFoundation (and ICU), to compile everything. Without 
CoreFoundation, you just get kjs, pcre and wtf, but you still need 
ICU.

Speaking of requirements, for a full installation, aside from GCC 4.x 
and GNUstep you will need ICU, SqLite3, FreeType, FontConfig, CURL, 
Cairo, XML2, XSLT and ICONV.

Most of these are also dependencies of GNUstep, so should be installed 
already.

> With permission, we might want to use the current (dead) project on
> Gna. I would be willing to upload my current set of makefiles.

It's actually still working, but there's a weird bug that will dump 
core whenever you try to enter text in a text field.
Couldn't figure out why this is happening, because it's happening in a 
one (or two) liner method for one of the various bridges.

--
Chris