Webkit/gtk on win32

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Sun Apr 10 16:37:55 EDT 2011


On zaterdag 9 april 2011, Phil Longstaff wrote:
> I've now basically integrated the webkit/gtk build into windows.  I can
> package it up into a ZIP file for inclusion in the normal build.  What
> version of GTK should I build with?  In my local build, I updated all
> dependencies to their most up-to-date version (well, most up-to-date
> version that exists on ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32).  It
> builds and starts.  However, if more than 2 tabs are open, any other
> than the current one show an icon but the text is a big black rectangle.
> I remember talk about this problem.  Is this a bug in gnucash or in gtk?
Perhaps you are refering to this bug here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610675
Although this one doesn't mention a black rectangle exactly, but rather not 
visible text.

There have been several commits related to this bug, which appeared in Gtk 
2.18, but not in 2.16 [1].

> What version of gtk/other dependencies do other developers (who care
> about gtk version) want me to build against?
> 
I would prefer most recent.

> There are still a few manual steps involved in the build, or I would
> check in the files so that other people could reproduce.  I will still
> work on getting it fully reproducible and automated so that other people
> can build webkit for gnucash when required.
> 
Great. Thanks for that.

Geert

[1] Here's a series of the latest commits that were done: 
http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/19303
http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/18934
http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/18933
http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/18932
http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/18881
There are older ones still.


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