Windows CE Port of WebKit ¶

WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit WinCE is a project aiming at porting this fabulous engine to Windows CE.

The WinCE port of WebKit currently compiles on Windows.

Status ¶

WebKit WinCE port is based on the work by Torche Mobile and is currently under development.

Getting the Source ¶

As the port is not completely upstreamed yet, one can get only the partial source code from official ​WebKit repository. Instead, we are hosting our development in ​http://gitorious.org/+wincewebkit-developers/webkit/wincewebkit.

git clone git://gitorious.org/+wincewebkit-developers/webkit/wincewebkit.git

Third party libraries are under "3rdparty" directory.

Build ¶

We use ​CMake as our build system. You don't need a full Cygwin environment, but the following tooles are required:

• bison
• flex
• gperf
• perl
• python

Windows CE SDK ¶

Visual Studio 2005 (No Express Edition!) with a Windows CE SDK is required to build the binary. Visual Studio 2008 should work too.

You can find the Windows CE 5 Standard SDK at ​http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fa1a3d66-3f61-4ddc-9510-ae450e2318c3. Any other SDK should work too.

Build CMake with WinCE support ¶

Because the offical CMake has not support for Windows CE at the moment, we need to use the CMake version from AlexeyS.

git clone git://github.com/AlexeyS/cmake.git

Follow the instructions in the Readme.txt to build a CMake with WinCE support.

Build WebKit ¶

When you have a working CMake with WinCE support you can generate a Visual Studio Solution out of the CMake files.

mkdir WebKitBuild
cd WebKitBuild
cmake -G "Visual Studio 8 2005 for Windows CE" -DPORT:STRING=WinCE -DCMAKE_WINDOWS_CE_PLATFORM:STRING="STANDARDSDK_500 (ARMV4I)" C:\WebKitSource

This will generate a WebKit.sln in the WebKitBuild directory from the sourcecode in C:\WebKitSource. You can change the generator to Visual Studio 9 2008 for Windows CE if you want to generate Visual Studio 2008 projects. It is also possible to select an other Windwos CE SDK when you replace the STANDARDSDK_500 (ARMV4I) with the name of SDK you want to use.

Now you should be able to open the solution and build it.

Possible Builderrors ¶

Because of the fact that the buildsystem isn't 100% finished you may see one or more of the following errors:

example.h(123) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ExampleNames.h': No such file or directory

This should happen only with the first build, because of some missing dependencies. When you build the solution a second time (wait until the first is finished!) they will be gone.

Creating library...
LIB : warning LNK4068: /MACHINE not specified; defaulting to X86
example.obj : fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'ARM' conflicts with target machine type 'X86'

To fix this issue open the project properties and navigate to "Configuration Properties" / "Librarian" / "Command Line" and add /MACHINE:ARM into the "Additional options".

example.lib(example.obj) : error LNK2005: "void * __cdecl operator new(unsigned int)" (??2@YAPAXI@Z) already defined in coredll.lib(COREDLL.dll)
example.lib(example.obj) : error LNK2005: "void __cdecl operator delete(void *)" (??3@YAXPAX@Z) already defined in coredll.lib(COREDLL.dll)

If you get tons of this messages you hit ​http://support.microsoft.com/kb/148652. Moving all windows libraries after the WebKit libraries in "Configuration Properties" / "Linker" / "Additional Dependencies" will solve this problem.

Questions and feedback ¶

If you have questions please send an email to Patrick Gansterer <​paroga@paroga.com>