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Q: What's the difference between this package and extra/webkit2gtk?

A: webkitgtk/webkitgtk2 provides WebKit1 API/ABI, which is not compatible with WebKit2 API/ABI provided by extra/webkit2gtk. WebKitGTK+ 2.4.x is the latest branch that provides WebKit1 API. Later branches provides WebKit2 API only.

Please don't flag it as out-of-date.

Q: Are there binaries for this package somewhere?

A: I maintain the latest built package at https://github.com/frealgagu/archlinux.webkitgtk/releases

Q: "error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

A: You'll need to rebuild against the latest version of ICU.

Q: "error: ‘WTF::StringImpl::StaticASCIILiteraicASCIILiteral’ has not been declared" or any enchant errors.

A: If you are building in parallel, try disabling parallel using -j1 in /etc/makepkg.conf

Q: Why building takes too long time?

A: WebKit is inherently big and complex. You can modify /etc/makepkg.conf or PKGBUILD directly to build it in parallel.

• Change "make all stamp-po" by "make -j x all stamp-po" in PKGBUILD replacing x by cores your machine has. (Thanks to @MadMe)

• Change /etc/makepkg.conf in that way: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/makepkg#Parallel_compilation under # ARCHITECTURE, COMPILE FLAGS use MAKEFLAGS="-j9" # It should be one more than your virtual CPUs. (Thanks to @tuxsavvy).

However be pending if errors occur as mentioned in previous question.

Q: How much I want to wait to a successful compilation?

A: It varies of your PC's processor and RAM, the times shared in the comments are as follow:

• 3.5 hours to build on core i5 laptop with 8G of RAM, makeflags j4. (@cabbage)

• 13.5 hours to build on AMD Athlon X2, makeflags j1 (@Bonnietwin).

• 5-6 hours on Core2Duo E8400 with 8GB RAM, makeflags j2 (tuxsavvy).

• 50 minutes on 6c/12t 3.3GHz (@kubrick).

Getting this error:

fatal error: CSSGrammar.hpp: No such file or directory

I found a patch for GNUmakefile.in that copies CSSGrammar.h and XPathGrammar.h to CSSGrammar.hpp and XPathGrammar.hpp respectively: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/sbo-scripts-not-building-on-current-read-1st-post-pls-4175561999/page195.html#post6160562

--- webkitgtk-2.4.11.orig/GNUmakefile.in    2020-08-28 22:11:51.510864558 +0800
+++ webkitgtk-2.4.11.new/GNUmakefile.in 2020-08-28 22:24:17.657842406 +0800
@@ -82071,6 +82071,7 @@
 $(GENSOURCES_WEBCORE)/XPathGrammar.cpp: $(WebCore)/xml/XPathGrammar.y
    $(AM_V_GEN)
    $(AM_V_at)perl $(WebCore)/css/makegrammar.pl --outputDir $(GENSOURCES_WEBCORE) --bison "$(BISON)" --symbolsPrefix xpathyy $<
+   $(AM_V_at)cp $(GENSOURCES_WEBCORE)/XPathGrammar.h $(GENSOURCES_WEBCORE)/XPathGrammar.hpp

 # MathML tag and attribute names, and element factory
 DerivedSources/WebCore/MathMLElementFactory.h: DerivedSources/WebCore/MathMLElementFactory.cpp
@@ -82129,6 +82130,7 @@
 DerivedSources/WebCore/CSSGrammar.cpp: $(WebCore)/css/CSSGrammar.y.in
    $(AM_V_GEN)
    $(AM_V_at)perl -I $(WebCore)/bindings/scripts $(WebCore)/css/makegrammar.pl --extraDefines "$(feature_defines)" --outputDir $(GENSOURCES_WEBCORE) --bison "$(BISON)" --symbolsPrefix cssyy $<
+   $(AM_V_at)cp $(GENSOURCES_WEBCORE)/CSSGrammar.h $(GENSOURCES_WEBCORE)/CSSGrammar.hpp

 DerivedSources/WebCore/UserAgentStyleSheetsData.cpp: DerivedSources/WebCore/UserAgentStyleSheets.h
 DerivedSources/WebCore/UserAgentStyleSheets.h: $(WebCore)/css/make-css-file-arrays.pl $(WebCore)/bindings/scripts/preprocessor.pm $(USER_AGENT_STYLE_SHEETS)

Applying it after the autoreconf in the PKGBUILD seems to work.

Warning!!! Anyone uninitiated should check that a) They need this and b) Can they install the binary version. This pile of c++ foo takes a long time to compile for a 49Mb footprint

Someone can drop build webkitgtk 3:2.4.11-18 package please? Thanks, Slav

This package is missing the following dependencies during build time: bison flex

Thank you @chiwanpark ! You nailed it !

Best Reagards!

@Baltazar72 The error is caused by recent ICU update (https://unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/apidoc/released/icu4c/umachine_8h_source.html#l00143). You may fix line 66 of PKGBUILD as follows to build successfully.

CXXFLAGS+=" -Wno-expansion-to-defined -Wno-class-memaccess -DUPRV_BLOCK_MACRO_BEGIN=\"\" -DUPRV_BLOCK_MACRO_END=\"\""

Hi

I cannot build this :

/home/notorknu/.cache/yay/webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/SegmentedFontData.cpp: In member function ‘virtual bool WebCore::SegmentedFontData::containsCharacters(const UChar*, int) const’:
/home/notorknu/.cache/yay/webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/SegmentedFontData.cpp:65:9: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘if’
   65 |         if (!containsCharacter(c))
      |         ^~
make[1]: *** [GNUmakefile:55608: Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/libPlatform_la-SegmentedFontData.lo] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/notorknu/.cache/yay/webkitgtk/src/build-gtk'
make: *** [GNUmakefile:30367: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Then I "added the ";", and next go It went further., but then it stopped agin on :

  CXX      Source/WebCore/dom/libWebCore_la-DOMImplementation.lo
  CXX      Source/WebCore/dom/libWebCore_la-DOMNamedFlowCollection.lo
make[1]: *** [GNUmakefile:59745: Source/WebCore/dom/libWebCore_la-Document.lo] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/home/notorknu/.cache/yay/webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/WebCore/dom/DOMImplementation.cpp: In static member function ‘static WTF::PassRefPtr<WebCore::CSSStyleSheet> WebCore::DOMImplementation::createCSSStyleSheet(const WTF::String&, const WTF::String&, WebCore::ExceptionCode&)’:
/home/notorknu/.cache/yay/webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/WebCore/dom/DOMImplementation.cpp:264:21: warning: redundant move in return statement [-Wredundant-move]
  264 |     return std::move(sheet);
      |            ~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~
/home/notorknu/.cache/yay/webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/WebCore/dom/DOMImplementation.cpp:264:21: note: remove ‘std::move’ call
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/notorknu/.cache/yay/webkitgtk/src/build-gtk'
make: *** [GNUmakefile:30367: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
Error making: webkitgtk

I tried downgrading gcc to older versions, but I had no luck ..

ANY suggestions would make me happy. Thank You, and Best Regards Torstein

Getting this error:

  CXXLD    libwebkitgtk-3.0.la
ld: error: duplicate symbol 'webkit_media_player_debug' in version script
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [GNUmakefile:45093: libwebkitgtk-3.0.la] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/vlatko/.cache/yay/webkitgtk/src/build-gtk
make: *** [GNUmakefile:30367: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

FAQ

Q: What's the difference between this package and extra/webkit2gtk?

A: webkitgtk/webkitgtk2 provides WebKit1 API/ABI, which is not compatible with WebKit2 API/ABI provided by extra/webkit2gtk. WebKitGTK+ 2.4.x is the latest branch that provides WebKit1 API. Later branches provides WebKit2 API only.

Please don't flag it as out-of-date.

Q: Are there binaries for this package somewhere?

A: I maintain the latest built package at https://github.com/frealgagu/archlinux.webkitgtk/releases

Q: "error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

A: You'll need to rebuild against the latest version of ICU.

Q: "error: ‘WTF::StringImpl::StaticASCIILiteraicASCIILiteral’ has not been declared" or any enchant errors.

A: If you are building in parallel, try disabling parallel using -j1 in /etc/makepkg.conf

Q: Why building takes too long time?

A: WebKit is inherently big and complex. You can modify /etc/makepkg.conf or PKGBUILD directly to build it in parallel.

• Change "make all stamp-po" by "make -j x all stamp-po" in PKGBUILD replacing x by cores your machine has. (Thanks to @MadMe)

• Change /etc/makepkg.conf in that way: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/makepkg#Parallel_compilation under # ARCHITECTURE, COMPILE FLAGS use MAKEFLAGS="-j9" # It should be one more than your virtual CPUs. (Thanks to @tuxsavvy).

However be pending if errors occur as mentioned in previous question.

Q: How much I want to wait to a successful compilation?

A: It varies of your PC's processor and RAM, the times shared in the comments are as follow:

• 3.5 hours to build on core i5 laptop with 8G of RAM, makeflags j4. (@cabbage)

• 13.5 hours to build on AMD Athlon X2, makeflags j1 (@Bonnietwin).

• 5-6 hours on Core2Duo E8400 with 8GB RAM, makeflags j2 (tuxsavvy).

• 50 minutes on 6c/12t 3.3GHz (@kubrick).

It doesn't compile for me. Does anyone happen to know how to fix this error? :

  CXX      Source/JavaScriptCore/API/libjavascriptcoregtk_3_0_la-JSScriptRef.lo
  CXX      Source/JavaScriptCore/API/libjavascriptcoregtk_3_0_la-JSStringRef.lo
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp: In function ‘OpaqueJSString* JSStringCreateWithCharacters(const JSChar*, size_t)’:
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp:40:35: error: invalid conversion from ‘const JSChar*’ {aka ‘const char16_t*’} to ‘const UChar*’ {aka ‘const short unsigned int*’} [-fpermissive]
     return OpaqueJSString::create(chars, numChars).leakRef();
                                   ^~~~~
In file included from /tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp:31:
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/JavaScriptCore/API/OpaqueJSString.h:49:59: note:   initializing argument 1 of ‘static WTF::PassRefPtr<OpaqueJSString> OpaqueJSString::create(const UChar*, unsigned int)’
     static PassRefPtr<OpaqueJSString> create(const UChar* characters, unsigned length)
                                              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp: In function ‘OpaqueJSString* JSStringCreateWithCharactersNoCopy(const JSChar*, size_t)’:
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp:65:68: error: invalid conversion from ‘const JSChar*’ {aka ‘const char16_t*’} to ‘const UChar*’ {aka ‘const short unsigned int*’} [-fpermissive]
     return OpaqueJSString::create(StringImpl::createWithoutCopying(chars, numChars)).leakRef();
                                                                    ^~~~~
In file included from /tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/WTF/wtf/text/WTFString.h:29,
                 from /tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/JavaScriptCore/API/OpaqueJSString.h:31,
                 from /tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp:31:
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/WTF/wtf/text/StringImpl.h:393:88: note:   initializing argument 1 of ‘static WTF::PassRef<WTF::StringImpl> WTF::StringImpl::createWithoutCopying(const UChar*, unsigned int)’
     WTF_EXPORT_STRING_API static PassRef<StringImpl> createWithoutCopying(const UChar* characters, unsigned length);
                                                                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp: In function ‘const JSChar* JSStringGetCharactersPtr(JSStringRef)’:
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/webkitgtk-2.4.11/Source/JavaScriptCore/API/JSStringRef.cpp:86:30: error: invalid conversion from ‘const UChar*’ {aka ‘const short unsigned int*’} to ‘const JSChar*’ {aka ‘const char16_t*’} [-fpermissive]
     return string->characters();
            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~
make[1]: *** [GNUmakefile:74690: Source/JavaScriptCore/API/libjavascriptcoregtk_3_0_la-JSStringRef.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-mark/aur-webkitgtk/src/build-gtk'
make: *** [GNUmakefile:30360: all] Error 2