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Reputation: 348

trying to build webkit from android externals

I've been trying to build Android WebKit from source (from here https://github.com/android/platform_external_webkit), but haven't had any success so far. I've run make and ndk-build from the root directory of my repo copy and from from the Source directory inside it, with the following results:

make from the root directory (makes sense, because there is no Makefile), 

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

make from the /Source directory:

make[1]: Entering directory `/webkit/Source/JavaScriptGlue'
../Makefile.shared:2: ../../Makefile.shared: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../../Makefile.shared'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/webkit/Source/JavaScriptGlue'
make: *** [all] Error 2

ndk-build from root and ./Source:

Android NDK: Could not find application project directory !    
Android NDK: Please define the NDK_PROJECT_PATH variable to point to it.    
<NDK>/build/core/build-local.mk:130: *** Android NDK: Aborting    .  Stop.

Can anyone advise as to what I'm doing wrong? I've read mention of Android needing to be compiled as a whole, but since this is 'external', I thought it would compile standalone. Am I wrong about that? Or is there some configuration step I've missed? Or anything else?

Thanks for the help.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1177

Answers (1)

Paul Gardiner
Paul Gardiner

Reputation: 478

This doesn't allow you to get a build fully working, I suspect you did the same as me and cloned to a folder called webkit.

If you rename that to jni and then run ndk-build from the folder containing jni, it does at least get past the problem you mention. I now get the error:

jni/Android.mk:314: external/stlport/libstlport.mk: No such file or directory
Android NDK: Trying to define local module 'webcore' in jni/Source/WebKit/Android.mk.
Android NDK: But this module was already defined by jni/Source/WebKit/Android.mk.
/cygdrive/e/android-ndk-r7/build/core/build-module.mk:34: *** Android NDK: Aborting.    .  Stop.

I'm still trying to figure out how to solve this new error.

Upvotes: 4

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