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List:       openjdk-openjfx-dev
Subject:    Re: Compiling OpenJFX + WebKit
From:       "Anton V. Tarasov" <anton.tarasov () oracle ! com>
Date:       2015-05-28 16:47:04
Message-ID: 55674688.2050204 () oracle ! com
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On 11.05.2015 20:06, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out. I'm not sure what we did last time to get the \
> webview-deps into  maven, but Anton can probably check into it. It will not build \
> successfully with the older version  of webview-deps so I don't recommend wasting \
> any time trying.

Delivering to Maven Central is still in progress. The activity was suspended for a \
while (sorry  about that...) but I'm planning to resume it ASAP.

With regards,
Anton.

> 
> In addition, we now rely on upgraded compilers with C++11 support, and also Qt 5.2, \
> to build  WebView. We can update the Wiki. If you can help (or at least point out \
> all the places that you  found that are now out of date), that would be great.
> 
> Our supported build platforms, which also need to be specified on the Wiki are:
> 
> Windows:  Windows 7 or later, VS 2013
> Mac: OS X 10.9.5 or later, Xcode 5.1.1
> Linux: Ubuntu 14.04 or later (we use Oracle Linux 6.4 with devtoolset-3 gcc 4.9 \
> compilers) 
> -- Kevin
> 
> 
> Michael Hoffer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just tried to compile OpenJFX from the 8u-dev branch on OS X and Ubuntu.
> > Unfortunately, I'm experiencing several problems. Without WebKit everything
> > works fine. But with WebKit there are several problems:
> > 
> > 1. the build script has a webview-deps:1.3 dependency which has not been
> > published on maven central.
> > 
> > If I revert the version number of the dependency to the 1.2 version (newest
> > version that is available) I run into the next problem:
> > 
> > 2. WebKit does not compile on Ubuntu because of missing libraries (can be
> > fixed via sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev)
> > 
> > If I add the missing dependencies I can compile WebKit, but
> > 
> > 3. the generated Java code contains errors (also happens on OS X), starting
> > with
> > 
> > openjfx/rt-8u-dev/modules/web/build/linux/Release/WebCore/generated/java/com/sun/webkit/dom/CounterImpl.java:5: \
> >  
> > error: cannot find symbol
> > import com.sun.webkit.Disposer;
> > ^
> > symbol:   class Disposer
> > location: package com.sun.webkit
> > 
> > Are these known problems? I'd really love to compile my own OpenJFX version
> > as I did with the first Java 8 preview version where the compilation was
> > relatively easy to accomplish.
> > 
> > 4. In my opinion the wiki should be updated with more recent information on
> > which os/library/compiler version is needed. On OS X for example, I needed
> > to use qtmake from qt5 since the qt4 version was missing the correct spec
> > file for clang. And it was generally unclear whether building on OS X 10.9
> > or 10.10 is supported.
> > 
> > Any help is appreciated! And I'm also willing to contribute documentation/
> > fixes if necessary.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Michael Hoffer
> > 


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