Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of ImprovingLifeOnWindows

Timestamp:

Aug 19, 2009, 9:09:02 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

Adam Roben

Comment:

Added ideas for improving the running/debugging/testing experience

ImprovingLifeOnWindows

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 WebKit development on Windows is currently quite tedious and error-prone. This page lists some ideas for how to improve it.
 
-= Improving the Windows Set-up Process =
+= Set-up =
 
 == Check in a Cygwin installation to `svn.webkit.org` ==
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 [http://www.chromium.org/ Chromium] does this (see http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/deps/third_party/cygwin/). This would remove the need for [source:trunk/WebKitTools/CygwinDownloader cygwin-downloader], or for users to have Cygwin installed at all.
 
-= Improving the Windows Build Process =
+= Building =
 
 == Set the `WebKitOutputDir` and `WebKitLibrariesDir` environment variables automatically ==
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 [http://code.google.com/p/gyp/ gyp] is a project-file-generation tool that can be used to generate `.vcproj` and `.sln` files (and `.xcodeproj`, etc.). It has a much easier to read format than `.vcproj`, and might be more easily modified by hand than `.vcproj` files. The Chromium port is already using `gyp`, so we'd have some extra help in maintaining the files (assuming we could share `gyp` files with them). If we switched Mac to using `gyp`, too, then we'd really reduce the likelihood of someone forgetting to add a new file to a `.vcproj`.
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+= Running/Debugging =
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+== Don't copy Safari into `%TMP%` ==
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+`run-safari` and `debug-safari` currently copy Safari into `%TMP%`. We should switch to using [source:trunk/WebKitTools/WebKitLauncherWin WebKitLauncherWin] now that Safari 4.0.3 has shipped.
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+= Running Regression Tests =
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+== Detect when required fonts are missing ==
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+`run-webkit-tests` should check when required fonts are missing (e.g., East Asian language support) and warn the user.