Webkit dependencies

[Phil Longstaff]

On October 12, 2009 03:46:11 pm Christian Stimming wrote:
> Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2009 17:34 schrieb Phil Longstaff:
> > > 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".
>
> Same as Derek: I'd be very surprised if the webkit headers will include the
> libsoup headers and include the windows.h header so that our application
> code also pulls in the windows.h header. Is there really such an
> unavoidable header inclusion? That's very weird of webkit and I'd rather
> expect them to fix this.

webkit.h includes soup headers.  soup-portability.h includes winsock2.h which 
pulls in other windows headers.  Given that we don't need soup for our use of 
webkit, I wish they had left it opaque so that we could include soup if we 
needed it.

Phil