Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 8.3

Chapter 25. X Libraries

WebKitGTK+-2.20.5

Introduction to WebKitGTK+

The WebKitGTK+ package is a port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK+ 3 and GTK+ 2 platforms.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.3 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.20.5.tar.xz

  • Download MD5 sum: 72a05f6a4dc1c78b079590a8fd280401

  • Download size: 16 MB

  • Estimated disk space required: 963 MB (128 MB installed)

  • Estimated build time: 18 SBU (using parallelism=4, 49 SBUs using one core)

WebKitGTK+ Dependencies

Required

Cairo-1.14.12, CMake-3.12.1, gst-plugins-base-1.14.2, gst-plugins-bad-1.14.2, GTK+-2.24.32, GTK+-3.22.30, ICU-62.1, libgudev-232, libsecret-0.18.6, libsoup-2.62.3, libwebp-1.0.0, Mesa-18.1.6, Ruby-2.5.1, SQLite-3.24.0, and Which-2.21

Recommended

enchant-2.2.3, GeoClue-2.4.11, gobject-introspection-1.56.1, hicolor-icon-theme-0.17, and libnotify-0.7.7

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.28, HarfBuzz-1.8.8, LLVM-6.0.1, Wayland-1.15.0, Hyphen, MathML, and woff2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/webkitgtk

Installation of WebKitGTK+

Installation of WebKitGTK+

[Caution]

Caution

You must rebuild Perl with -Dusethreads if LFS was built without that option. LFS made this change in April 2017.

Install WebKitGTK+ by running the following commands: 

mkdir -vp build &&
cd        build &&

CFLAGS=-Wno-expansion-to-defined  \
CXXFLAGS=-Wno-expansion-to-defined \
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON       \
      -DPORT=GTK                  \
      -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib  \
      -DUSE_LIBHYPHEN=OFF         \
      -DENABLE_MINIBROWSER=ON     \
      -DUSE_WOFF2=OFF             \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

This package does not have a working testsuite. However, there is a useable basic graphical web browser in the build directory, build/bin/MiniBrowser. If launching it fails, there is a problem with the build.

[Note]

Note

When installing, the Makefile does some additional compiling and linking. If you do not have Xorg in /usr, the LIBRARY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH variables need to be defined for the root user. If using sudo to assume root, use the -E option to pass your current environment variables for the install process.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&

install -vdm755 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkit{2,dom}gtk-4.0 &&
install -vm644  ../Documentation/webkit2gtk-4.0/html/*   \
                /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkit2gtk-4.0       &&
install -vm644  ../Documentation/webkitdomgtk-4.0/html/* \
                /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkitdomgtk-4.0

Command Explanations

-DUSE_LIBHYPHEN=OFF: This switch disables default automatic hyphenation implementation. You need to install Hyphen, if you wish to enable it (replacing OFF with ON or just removing the switch).

-DENABLE_MINIBROWSER=ON: This switch enables the Mini Browser compilation and install.

-DUSE_LIBNOTIFY=OFF: Use this switch if you do not have libnotify installed.

-DUSE_SYSTEM_MALLOC=ON: This switch enables building against the system installed malloc.

-DENABLE_GEOLOCATION=OFF: Use this switch if you don't want to install GeoClue-2.4.11.

-DENABLE_GTKDOC=ON: Use this switch if GTK-Doc-1.28 is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

-DUSE_WOFF2=ON: Use this switch if the optional package woff2 is inatalled.

Contents

Installed Program: jsc, MiniBrowser, and WebKitWebDriver
Installed Libraries: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0.so and libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0, /usr/lib{,exec}/webkit2gtk-4.0, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkit{2,dom}gtk-4.0

Short Descriptions

jsc

is a command-line utility that allows you to run JavaScript programs outside of the context of a web browser.

MiniBrowser

is a very simple graphical browser.

WebKitWebDriver

allows debugging and automation of web pages and browsers.

libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0.so

contains core JavaScript API functions used by jsc and libwebkit2gtk-4.0.

libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so

contains the WebKit2 API functions.

Last updated on 2018-08-26 12:11:33 -0700