Changes between Version 16 and Version 17 of BuildingOnWindows

Timestamp:

Jun 26, 2008, 6:51:02 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

baudel@ilog.fr

Comment:

Feedback on my experience building webkit: missing cygwin packages

BuildingOnWindows

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 If you see errors like this you probably need to install the [http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/ platform SDK]. 
 
+=== Missing packages in Cygwin ===
+
+You may have had cygwin already installed before attempting to build WebKit. In this case, you should have checked your cygwin setup to make sure that you have at least the following packages installed: bison, gawk, flex, gperf, perl, zlib (non-exhaustive list, to be completed). The error reports you get when you miss one such package are particularly cryptic and may not lead you to those packages.
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 == Running the tests ==
 After successfully building WebKit, in order to run the tests you need to copy the DLLs from C:\Program Files\Safari\ into your WebKitBuild\bin folder, otherwise testkjs won't run properly. When you are doing this, be careful not to overwrite the WebKit.dll file in WebKitBuild\bin with the one in C:\Program Files\Safari. (If you use the DOS copy command, it will ask you before overwriting.)