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Building WebKit on Windows » the Void — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:06:30 +0000

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By: George

George — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:27:30 +0000

Please can someone who have managed to build webkit (not cairo!) send the generated WebKit.tlb of the latest webkit to the mail: tsumalis96@gmail.com? Thanks!

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:45:44 +0000

Building Webkit on Windows seems like such a hassle. It may just be easier to buy a mac. :p

By: TrailBlazzer

TrailBlazzer — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 06:06:08 +0000

Since I am working on WebKit (Windows Port)
Should I download WebKit-SVN.zip file or WebKit.tar.bz2 file (Like mentioned in the post)??

By: Strumsoft

Strumsoft — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:18:49 +0000

I have resolved the issues that I had, now I am able to compile and run WinLauncher_Debug.exe

By: Strumsoft

Strumsoft — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:03:07 +0000

Hi Daebark,

I am facing the same issue that you had, could you please tell me how you fixed this issue.

Daebark says:
November 9, 2010 at 1:10 am

Hello,

Thanks a lot! I can build webkit now.
Now, I want to run WinLauncher_debug.exe.
Only one problem is that I cannot find the right cairo.dll.
From cairo homepage, I downloaded libcairo-2.dll, zlib1.dll, libpng14-14.dll, and put other requirements folder dlls on webkitdist/bin/.
Additionally, I’ve tried to renamed it like cairo.dll.
Nothing happened.
Where can I get cairo.dll?

By: bfulgham

bfulgham — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:54:07 +0000

Hi everyone! I created the WinCairo port of WebKit, and wanted to point out that most of the above instructions are out of date.

1. To get the required DLL’s and other elements to build WebKit, you just need to execute: “update-webkit –wincairo”. This will download the appropriate header files, libraries, and binaries and install them in the build path.

2. WebKit (WinCairo) can build under VS2008 cleanly; you do need different builds of the support files. I posted VS2008 builds on my blog from time to time.

Thanks for trying out WinCairo. I’d sure love to have other contributors working on it, or at least users who can help file bugs and determine which pieces are not working as expected!

By: Ishaque

Ishaque — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:04:17 +0000

I have followed all the steps that you have mentioned, but I get error when I try to build it.

I have Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express and all the above mentioned packages installed.

but when I run “$ Tools/Scripts/build-webkit –wincairo –debug”

it shows following error:
ERROR: FATAL: Failed to determine the SCM system for either /cygdrive/c/cygwin/h
ome/Essack/WebKit-r90335 or /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Essack/WebKit-r90335/Tools/S
cripts/webkitpy/common/checkout/scm.

Kindly shed some light on it.

By: Nimish Nayak

Nimish Nayak — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:44:23 +0000

Thanks a lot for your post! it was very helpful.
I found it much better than the existing on webkit.org for Building on Cairo’s Window Port :P

I would like to add only one thing to this.. If you are using Visual Studios 2005 Express Edition By Default Microsoft Visual Studios 2005 Express Edition fails to link to the standard libraries sometimes. Thus you have to open the solution folder of WebKit and Under “Additional Libraries” Include the libraries which are missing in the build log of the respective projects

Mostly its User32.lib and Gdi32.lib But there are a couple of others too.