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-11.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.32.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: f31b802de421865ea9f1391ec8190519
Download size: 22 MB
Estimated disk space required: 909 MB (127 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 29 SBU (using parallelism=4, estimated 97 SBU using one core)
Cairo-1.17.4, CMake-3.21.2, gst-plugins-base-1.18.4, gst-plugins-bad-1.18.4, GTK+-3.24.30, ICU-69.1, libgudev-237, libsecret-0.20.4, libsoup-2.74.0, libtasn1-4.17.0, libwebp-1.2.1, Mesa-21.2.1, OpenJPEG-2.4.0, Ruby-3.0.2, SQLite-3.36.0, Which-2.21, and wpebackend-fdo-1.10.0
enchant-2.3.1, GeoClue-2.5.7, gobject-introspection-1.68.0, hicolor-icon-theme-0.17, and libnotify-0.7.9
bubblewrap-0.5.0, GTK-Doc-1.33.2, GTK-4.4.0, HarfBuzz-2.9.0, Wayland-1.19.0, WOFF2-1.0.2, ccache, Hyphen, MathML, libmanette, and xdg-dbus-proxy
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/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_GAMEPAD=OFF \
-DENABLE_MINIBROWSER=ON \
-DUSE_WOFF2=OFF \
-DUSE_WPE_RENDERER=ON \
-DUSE_SYSTEMD=OFF \
-DENABLE_BUBBLEWRAP_SANDBOX=OFF \
-Wno-dev -G Ninja .. &&
ninja
This package does not have a working testsuite. However, there is a usable basic graphical web browser in the build directory, build/bin/MiniBrowser. If launching it fails, there is a problem with the build.
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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:
ninja 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
-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_GAMEPAD=OFF: This
switch disables gamepad support. Remove this switch if you have
libmanette
installed and wish to enable it.
-DENABLE_MINIBROWSER=ON:
This switch enables compiling and installing the MiniBrowser.
-DUSE_WPE_RENDERER=ON: This
switch uses the WPE renderer, which is recommended by upstream.
-DENABLE_BUBBLEWRAP_SANDBOX=OFF:
Remove this switch if the optional packages bubblewrap-0.5.0 and xdg-dbus-proxy are
installed.
-DUSE_SYSTEMD=OFF: This
switch disables using the systemd journal for logging errors and
debugging information since it is not available on SysV systems.
-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-2.5.7.
-DENABLE_GTKDOC=ON: Use this switch if
GTK-Doc-1.33.2 is installed and you wish to
rebuild and install the API documentation.
-DUSE_WOFF2=ON: Use this switch if the
optional package WOFF2-1.0.2 is installed. This adds
additional support for fonts.
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