Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.7

Chapter 25. X Libraries

WebKitGTK+-2.6.5

Introduction to WebKitGTK+

The WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK+ 3 and GTK+ 2 platforms.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7 platform.

Package Information

WebKitGTK+ Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.1.3, gst-plugins-base-1.4.5, GTK+-2.24.26, GTK+-3.14.8, ICU-54.1, libsecret-0.18, libsoup-2.48.1, libwebp-0.4.2, MesaLib-10.4.5, Ruby-2.2.0, SQLite-3.8.8.2, udev-extras (from eudev) (for GUdev) and Which-2.20

Recommended

enchant-1.6.0, GeoClue-0.12.0, gobject-introspection-1.42.0, hicolor-icon-theme-0.14

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.21, Harfbuzz-0.9.38, LLVM-3.5.1, GeoClue2, and MathML

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/webkitgtk

Installation of WebKitGTK+

Installation of WebKitGTK+

Install WebKitGTK+ by running the following commands: 

sed -i 's/â€/\"/g' Source/WebCore/xml/XMLViewer.{css,js} &&

mkdir -vp build &&
cd build        &&

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON       \
      -DPORT=GTK                  \
      -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib  \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite.

[Note]

Note

When installing, the Makefile does some additional compiling and linking. If you do not have Xorg in /usr, the LIBRARY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH variables need to be defined for the root user. If using sudo to assume root, use the -E option to pass your current environment variables for the install process.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&

install -vdm755 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkit{2,dom}gtk-4.0 &&
install -vm644  ../Documentation/webkit2gtk/html/* \
                /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkit2gtk-4.0 &&
install -vm644  ../Documentation/webkitdomgtk/html/* \
                /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkitdomgtk-4.0

Command Explanations

sed -i ...: Fixes typos in two source code files.

-DUSE_SYSTEM_MALLOC=ON: This switch enables building against the system installed malloc.

-DENABLE_GEOLOCATION=OFF: Use this switch if you don't want to install GeoClue-0.12.0 or GeoClue2.

-DENABLE_GTKDOC=ON: Use this switch if GTK-Doc-1.21 is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Program: jsc
Installed Libraries: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0.so and libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0, /usr/lib/webkit2gtk-4.0, /usr/libexec/webkit2gtk-4.0, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkit2gtk-4.0, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkitdomgtk-4.0

Short Descriptions

jsc

is a command-line utility that allows you to run JavaScript programs outside of the context of a web browser.

libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0.so

contains core JavaScript API functions used by jsc and libwebkit2gtk-4.0.

libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so

contains the WebKit2 API functions.

Last updated on 2015-03-02 14:33:58 -0800