Changes between Version 126 and Version 127 of BuildingGtk

Timestamp:

Dec 10, 2016 12:21:44 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

Michael Catanzaro

Comment:

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BuildingGtk

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-= Building WebKitGTK+ =
+= Building WebKitGTK+ from a release tarball =
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+You can build and install WebKitGTK+ from a [https://webkitgtk.org/releases/ release tarball] the same as you would any other CMake module. The only trick is that you must pass the CMake option -DPORT=GTK. For example, to do a release build with debug info, with one parallel build per processor, and install the result:
 
 {{{
-#!div style="border: 1pt dotted; margin: 1em; background: PeachPuff"
-**These instructions are meant for use with the source code repository and are generally not suitable for building a release tarball.**
+cmake -DPORT=GTK -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
+make -j`nproc`
+make install
 }}}
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+= Building WebKitGTK+ from git =
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+If you want to do development on WebKit itself, you'll need a git checkout. You'll also need to use our JHBuild moduleset to build several dependencies, as using other versions of dependencies may cause layout tests to fail.
 
 == Getting the source ==
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 This has been tested with WebKit2GTK 2.12.x and 2.14.x releases as well as with trunk. If you find any issue/comment, please comment on the [https://github.com/mariospr/webkit2gtk-ARM github repo], or open a pull request.
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