Webkit dependencies

[Phil Longstaff]

On October 12, 2009 10:11:52 am Derek Atkins wrote:
> Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com> writes:
> > Gnucash on win32 currently uses webkit 1.1.5 from April which I pulled
> > down
> >
> >>From the net.  I've been working lately on trying to use a more recent
> >> version
> >
> > (the webkitgtk team is trying to stabilize, and are at 1.1.15.2).
> > Unfortunately, webkit now depends on libsoup and enchant, and on win32,
> > libsoup includes windows .h files which define GUID, so there's a
> > definition clash.  I've hacked around that, for now, but I'm not sure
> > what the best solution will be.
>
> Are you saying that webkit not only depends on those libraries, but also
> EXPORTS those libraries as part of its interface?  That seems... poor.
> How have you hacked around it?  I think it's fine to #include those
> include files when building webkit, but I would see if there's some way
> to not #include those windows header files when building GnuCash.

The windows .h file only defines GUID if symbol GUID_DEFINED is not defined, so I 
put #define GUID_DEFINED before I include webkit.h.  The windows .h file also 
needs LPGUID defined, so I added "typedef void* LPGUID".

Phil