Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 8.0

Chapter 25. X Libraries

WebKitGTK+-2.14.5

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-8.0 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): http://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.14.5.tar.xz

  • Download MD5 sum: 7fe3cb2699e64f969b285823c5ae2516

  • Download size: 13 MB

  • Estimated disk space required: 1.1 GB (115 MB installed)

  • Estimated build time: 38 SBU (using parallelism=4, 131 SBUs using one core)

WebKitGTK+ Dependencies

Required

Cairo-1.14.8, CMake-3.7.2, enchant-1.6.0, gst-plugins-base-1.10.3, GTK+-2.24.31, GTK+-3.22.8, ICU-58.2, libgudev-231, libsecret-0.18.5, libsoup-2.56.0, libwebp-0.6.0, Mesa-13.0.4, Ruby-2.4.0, SQLite-3.17.0 and Which-2.21

Recommended

GeoClue-0.12.0, gobject-introspection-1.50.0, hicolor-icon-theme-0.15

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.25, HarfBuzz-1.4.2, libnotify-0.7.7, LLVM-3.9.1, Wayland-1.12.0, Hyphen, GeoClue2, and MathML

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

Installation of WebKitGTK+

Installation of WebKitGTK+

Install WebKitGTK+ by running the following commands: 

mkdir -vp build &&
cd        build &&

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     \
      -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_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-0.12.0 or GeoClue-2.4.5.

-DENABLE_GTKDOC=ON: Use this switch if GTK-Doc-1.25 is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Program: jsc and MiniBrowser
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.

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 2017-02-19 11:04:56 -0800