Building OpenJFX with WebKit

[Anton V. Tarasov]

Hi Ondra,

On 19.06.2015 21:19, Ondra Pelech wrote:
> lowering the version of webview-deps 1.3 --> 1.2 seems to be a step forward!
> but now I have another problem
>
> as you mentioned, there's this dependency on *.a static ICU libraries
> (why? why not depend on *.so?)
> in Fedora 20 there are only available dynamic *.so libraries (packages
> libicu and libicu-devel)

[Anrew answered this question]

>
> so is there an easy way of obtaining those *.a?
> or do you have a rough estimate when would these libraries be
> available on central via webview-deps:1.3?

When we pass 8u60 "hot phase" and get to be a little bit more flexible with our resources. So, 
roughly it may take ~2 weeks or so until new webview-deps appear on Central, I guess.

Regards
Anton.

> thanks again, cheers
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Anton V. Tarasov
> <anton.tarasov at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Hi Ondra, Michael,
>>
>> On 16.06.2015 18:04, Michael Hoffer wrote:
>>> Hi Ondra,
>>>
>>> I was able to build WebKit after reverting the version number from 1.3 to
>>> 1.2. On Linux there should be a package called libicu48. I guess it is
>>> equivalent to webview-deps 1.3. If you install it WebKit should compile.
>>
>> webview-deps 1.3 for Linux contains the following set of ICU 48:
>>
>>     libicudata.a
>>     libicui18n.a
>>     libicuio.a
>>     libicuuc.a
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> 2015-06-15 1:02 GMT+02:00 Ondra Pelech <ondra.pelech at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I'm trying to build OpenJFX with WebKit, but I'm missing the
>>>> dependency com.sun.webkit:webview-deps:1.3
>>>> I've come across this thread from May
>>>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.openjfx.devel/9447
>>>> but webkit:webview-deps:1.3 is still not on maven central
>>
>> We're going to put it in Central soon. Sorry for the delay.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Anton.
>>
>>
>>
>>>> is there another place I can get it from? or how can I build it myself?
>>>>
>>>> thank you, best regards
>>>> Ondra
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Building Webkit configuration /Release/ into
>>>> /home/ondra/Projects/rt/modules/web/build/linux
>>>> :web:compileNativeLinux FAILED
>>>>
>>>> FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
>>>>
>>>> * Where:
>>>> Build file '/home/ondra/Projects/rt/build.gradle' line: 2512
>>>>
>>>> * What went wrong:
>>>> Execution failed for task ':web:compileNativeLinux'.
>>>>> Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':web:webkit'.
>>>>      > Could not find com.sun.webkit:webview-deps:1.3.
>>>>        Required by:
>>>>            rt:web:unspecified
>>>>
>>>