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Reputation: 437

Build or Compile Webkit on Windows7 64bit

I'm trying to just build webkit on windows. As usual I started with webkit site and trying to get developer tools setup. I'm struck basically at the cygwin Installation itself.

The cygwin-downloader gets all the packages and runs the setup normally.

As per the installation instructions, I selected the Install from Local Directory Option (cygwin install and source package directories are different).

There was some initial turbulance in finding the packages, somehow i could let it find the packages. The screen looks like this now.

cygwin_select-package

I selected the packages (all) and then proceeded with next. It just ran very fast and exited saying nothing needs to be installed. It looked like this.

cygwin_nothing_to_be_installed

After I ran the cygwin shorcut from the desktop its shouting something is missing. cygwin_missing_shorcut

I don't understand what am I missing here. Also at some link it says we need a port to build webkit. If thats the case, how does anyone port webkit to their applications without building the webkit alone?

I know this is not a programming question. but this will help most of the people who are taking baby steps in understanding and build WebKit. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 691

Answers (1)

yanhkim
yanhkim

Reputation: 26

According to this, it's seems a cygwin-downloader's bug.

However, there is a workaround...

Just copy {cygwin-downloader}\setup.ini file to a {cygwin-downloader}\x86\ directory. Then reopen setup.exe. It will show you a package list without turbulence. You don't need to click all from the package list. Just click Next.

Upvotes: 1

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