A clutter port of WebKit

By kov

February 18, 2011

In case you missed the news on webkit-dev, Collabora has been working on developing a clutter port of WebKit. It shares the build system with EFL, and most of the backend code comes from the GTK+ port. That means networking is handled by soup, drawing by cairo, multimedia by GStreamer, and so on.

If you’d like to give it a try, you can clone the repository from gitorious:

$ git clone git://gitorious.org/webkit-clutter/webkit-clutter.git

Then to build it you use cmake. From inside the source code directory do this:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DPORT=Clutter -DSHARED_CORE=1 -DBUILD_MX_LIB=1
$ make

The BUILD_MX_LIB option is optional – it will build what we call the “Mx toolkit library” in addition to the vanilla one. Then you can test that the library is built and working by running the programs inside the “Programs” directory. Enjoy!