WebKitGTK-2.41.91
Introduction to WebKitGTK
The WebKitGTK package is a port of
the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK+
3 and GTK 4 platforms.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.0
platform.
Package Information
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Download (HTTP): https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.41.91.tar.xz
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Download MD5 sum: 1140f86d9044fb76be974b65f71737d7
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Download size: 39 MB
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Estimated disk space required: 1.2 GB (201 MB installed, add
152 MB for GTK-4)
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Estimated build time: 35 SBU (for GTK-3, using parallelism=4,
add 34 SBU for GTK-4)
WebKitGTK Dependencies
Required
Cairo-1.17.6, CMake-3.27.2,
gst-plugins-base-1.22.5, gst-plugins-bad-1.22.5, GTK+-3.24.38,
GTK-4.12.0,
ICU-73.2, Little
CMS-2.14, libgudev-238, libsecret-0.21.0, libsoup-3.4.2, libtasn1-4.19.0, libwebp-1.3.1,
Mesa-23.1.6, OpenJPEG-2.5.0, Ruby-3.2.2, SQLite-3.42.0, unifdef-2.12,
Which-2.21, and wpebackend-fdo-1.14.2
Recommended
bubblewrap-0.8.0, enchant-2.5.0,
GeoClue-2.7.0, gobject-introspection-1.76.1,
hicolor-icon-theme-0.17, libavif-0.11.1, and xdg-dbus-proxy-0.1.5
Optional
Gi-DocGen-2023.1, HarfBuzz-8.1.1, Wayland-1.22.0, WOFF2-1.0.2,
ccache, Hyphen,
libjxl, and libmanette
Editor Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/webkitgtk
Installation of WebKitGTK
Installation of WebKitGTK
![[Important]](../images/important.png)
Important
This package allows building with either GTK-3 or GTK-4, but not
both in the same build. The GTK-4 version is needed for packages
such as Epiphany-44.6. Other packages, such as
Balsa-2.6.4 or Evolution-3.48.4, require the GTK-3
version. Both versions can be installed side by side on the same
system. We give build instructions for both cases below, but the
only difference is the setting of -DUSE_GTK4
If you want to install the GTK+-3 version of WebKitGTK, run 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 \
-DENABLE_DOCUMENTATION=OFF \
-DUSE_WOFF2=OFF \
-DUSE_GTK4=OFF \
-DUSE_WPE_RENDERER=ON \
-DUSE_JPEGXL=OFF \
-DENABLE_BUBBLEWRAP_SANDBOX=ON \
-Wno-dev -G Ninja .. &&
ninja
This package does not have a working test suite. 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.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
As the -DENABLE_DOCUMENTATION=OFF
option is used, the documentation is not rebuilt nor installed now.
If you need the documentation, you can either install Gi-DocGen-2023.1 and remove this option from
the cmake command, or
install the pre-built documentation instead:
install -vdm755 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{jsc-glib,webkit2gtk{,-web-extension}}-4.1 &&
install -vm644 ../Documentation/jsc-glib-4.1/* \
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/jsc-glib-4.1 &&
install -vm644 ../Documentation/webkit2gtk-4.1/* \
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkit2gtk-4.1 &&
install -vm644 ../Documentation/webkit2gtk-web-extension-4.1/* \
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkit2gtk-web-extension-4.1
If you want to install the GTK4 version of WebKitGTK, run the following commands:
rm -rf * .[^.]* &&
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 \
-DENABLE_DOCUMENTATION=OFF \
-DUSE_WOFF2=OFF \
-DUSE_GTK4=ON \
-DUSE_JPEGXL=OFF \
-DUSE_WPE_RENDERER=ON \
-DENABLE_BUBBLEWRAP_SANDBOX=ON \
-Wno-dev -G Ninja .. &&
ninja
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
Command Explanations
-DUSE_LIBHYPHEN=OFF: This
switch disables the 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_DOCUMENTATION=OFF:
This switch disables regenerating the documentation. Remove this
switch if you have Gi-DocGen-2023.1 installed and wish to
regenerate the documentation.
-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.
-DUSE_JPEGXL=OFF: This
switch turns off support for JPEG-XL images. Remove it if you have
the optional package libjxl installed.
-DENABLE_BUBBLEWRAP_SANDBOX=ON: This
switch enables the Bubblewrap sandbox, which helps mitigate the
impact of most security vulnerabilities in this package. Change
this switch to OFF if you do not want to install bubblewrap-0.8.0 and xdg-dbus-proxy-0.1.5, but note that this
may put you at risk.
-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-2.7.0.
-DUSE_AVIF=OFF: Use this switch if you
don't want to install libavif-0.11.1. Note that you will not have
support for AVIF images if you do this.
-DUSE_WOFF2=ON: Use this switch if the
optional package WOFF2-1.0.2 is installed. This adds
additional support for fonts.
Contents
Installed Program:
WebKitWebDriver
Installed Libraries:
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1.so,
libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0.so, libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so, and
libwebkitgtk-6.0.so
Installed Directories:
/usr/include/webkitgtk-4.1,
/usr/include/webkitgtk-6.0, /usr/lib{,exec}/webkit2gtk-4.1,
/usr/lib{,exec}/webkitgtk-6.0, and
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{jsc-glib,webkit2gtk{,-web-extension}}-4.1
Short Descriptions
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WebKitWebDriver
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allows debugging and automation of web pages and browsers
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libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1.so
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contains core JavaScript API functions used by
jsc and
libwebkit2gtk-4.1
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libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0.so
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contains core JavaScript API functions used by
jsc and
libwebkitgtk-6.0
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libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so
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contains the WebKit2 API
functions
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libwebkitgtk-6.0.so
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contains the WebKit API
functions for GTK-4 applications
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