Progress! I've gotten WebKit to build. Now I need to figure out how
to tell Geary to use the new WebKit in place of the system one. (And
I think I have to get the GIR files from somewhere else.)
For the record, here's what I did:
- Get a tarball from the webkitgtk releases
(http://webkitgtk.org/releases/), not from the main webkit site.
(That was what was causing my confusion about build systems last
night.) I chose 1.10.2, the most recent of the 1.10 series.
- Get the build dependencies:
sudo apt-get build-dep webkit
- Install some GL libraries (for reasons that will come apparent later)
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev mesa-common-dev
- Upgrade libsoup. 12.04 has 2.38.1, WebKit wants 2.40 or greater.
I did this by adding ppa:laney/webkit-backports and choosing to
upgrade libsoup2.4-1. This ended up requiring upgrades of:
gir1.2-soup-2.4
glib-networking
glib-networking-common
glib-networking-services
glib-networking:i386
libglib2.0-0
libglib2.0-0:i386
libglib2.0-bin
libglib2.0-dev
libpcre3
libpcre3-dev
libpcre3:i386
libpcrepp0
libsoup2.4-1
libsoup2.4-1:i386
libsoup2.4-dev
I am slightly worried about upgrading libglib, but no ill effects so
far.
- Configure with
./configure --prefix="$HOME/webkit" --disable-video --disable-xslt
--disable-webkit2
At first, I tried to disable almost everything that seemed unnecessary,
but this kept leading to compilation errors. Then I tried disabling
just the four modules that Eric recommended (the three above plus
webGL). This got all the way through to the linker, where it failed
with a message about being unable to find some GL symbols. So I added
webGL back in.
- Make with make
make
This took an hour or two.
- Install to ~/webkit
make install
The only binary installed was the javascript console, which does work.
Now to see about compiling Geary against this. Any and all hints
appreciated.
Thanks for the help,
Robert
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