Hi all,
I've been watching the porting movement pretty closely, and seeing
the activity on the Windows port I thought I'd see if I could give it
a spin. I'm posting my experiences here in hopes that it will help
others and also to give some feedback on the whole process. :-)
I pulled a source tree from SVN. I first made the mistake of using
TortoiseSVN, but quickly realized that this wasn't good because some
of the files need to have Unix line endings, so I did another
checkout using Cygwin. Then I realized I needed MSVC8 to build. :-) I
didn't have MSVC8 so I went to Microsoft's site and downloaded and
installed MSVS8 Express. I then needed to follow these instructions
so that it would also work for building Win32 applications:
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc/usingpsdk/default.aspx
I also needed to change the "devenv.exe" in <WebKitRoot>/WebKitTools/
Scripts/webkitdirs.pm to "vcexpress.exe". (It'd be nice if there was
an easy way to check for one, and if it doesn't exist, check for the
other. I know hardly any Perl though. ;-/) Once I did this, I ran
install-win-extras and then build-webkit. It built fine, which was a
very promising development. :-)
I then opened up the Spinneret project and tried to build that. The
one annoying thing here is that WebCore and JSCore put build results
in subdirs of the main project dir (e.g. C:\oss\webkit\WebKitBuild),
but apparently Spinneret has C:\WebKitBuild hardcoded as the location
where it expects those files to be. I took the quick way out and made
a copy of my WebKitBuild folder in C:\. (Is there an easy way to
synch this dir with the ones chosen by the JSCore and WebCore
projects?) To my further surprise (hey, I know this is alpha code!),
I got a working Spinneret binary. Not only that, but it loaded pages
and rendered them, including gifs, bulleted lists, text, tables,
etc., and they appeared mostly as they do in Safari! I was
practically floored! :-) Obviously there is a lot more work to do,
but IMHO it is quite impressive to have covered this much ground in
such a short period of time! And to have an alpha-state product so
smoothly build and run.
Is it correct to assume that, for the Windows port, everything that
works outside of platform/win is cross-platform? That is to say, it
should be cross-platform, disregarding any possible glitches. :-) I'm
mostly trying to see if the porting effort is really mainly porting
platform/win to platform/wx and creating our own sample, or if there
are some major gotchas I'm not seeing.
Anyways, this is really great work and it has gotten me quite excited
about seeing a cross-platform WebKit (and a wx-based one too!) in the
not-so-distant future! :-)
Thanks,
Kevin
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