Introduction ¶

In Linux, you can build either Gdk port or Qt port. Gdk, QT port means the GUI browser is implemented using those libraries. So, These ports need external dependent libraries pre-installed on the system to get it build.

Building on Linux ¶

• Building on Gdk
• Building on Qt

For a quick setup of safari on GNU/Linux use the following section.

Easy steps ¶

Build Gdk Port ¶

• Checkout the main trunk from SVN. It will take atleast 2 hrs to get this complete.

    $ svn co http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk WebKit

• The checkout is around 1.1GB (depends on SVN client used) and after build it adds 600 MB.

• While SVN checkout is going on, you time save by issuing the following command in a new terminal to install the external dependencies required for the Gdk port to be build,

   
In Fedora,

    # yum install qt4 qt4-devel gperf sqlite-devel bison flex libxslt gtk+ libicu-devel libjpeg-devel libsqlite3-devel 

In Debian/Ubuntu, (this was tested on Ubuntu 7.10, not sure for the other flavors)

    # apt-get install libqt4-dev gperf libsqlite3-dev bison flex libxslt1-dev libgtk2.0-dev libicu36-dev libjpeg62-dev

In Gentoo, will not work.. some body can check ;)

    # emerge qt4 qt4-devel gperf sqlite-devel bison flex libxslt gtk+ libicu-devel libjpeg-devel libsqlite3-devel 
 

 NOTE: Some packages given in the above command may be already got installed by default. All the above packages are requirement for the Gdk port to get compiled.

• Export path variable using the command,

    $ export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt4
    $ export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH

• Build WebKit and the Gdk test browser with

WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/build-webkit --gdk --default

• Testing the port

A very simple test browser is built at

WebKit/WebKitBuild/Debug/WebKitTools/GdkLauncher/GdkLauncher

Building QT port ¶

The same procedure upto build steps. After that use the following command,

• Build WebKit and the QT test browser with

WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/build-webkit

• Testing the port

A very simple test browser is built at

WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release/WebKitQt/QtLauncher/QtLauncher