building webkit

[Tom Schindl]

I think in the longrun using the adoptjdk approch is the one to follow.

Tom

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> Am 25.08.2018 um 19:01 schrieb Arunprasad Rajkumar <arunprasad.rajkumar at oracle.com>:
> 
> As Kevin mentioned, I tried to make WebKit build work on Travis with few hacks(using ccache). It seemed to be working, but not consistently all the time.
> 
>> How does AdoptJDK solve problems of long build times? Can we not adopt
>> their build chain/infrastructure?
> 
> Looks like they host their own CI infra without relying on Travis/Appveyor.
> 
>> On 25-Aug-2018, at 6:34 PM, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> How does AdoptJDK solve problems of long build times? Can we not adopt
>> their build chain/infrastructure?
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>>> On 25.08.18 15:00, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>>> Yes, this should be possible to do. Even without build changes, we could
>>> build just the SDK + WebKit (and maybe media, too, or maybe a separate
>>> job for that). The problem is that even building just WebKit takes
>>> longer than Travis / Appveyor will allow. See PR #121 [1]. Arun can
>>> comment further.
>>> 
>>> Irrespective of the above, as long as a compatible SDK (meaning an SDK
>>> built from the current tip of jfx-dev/rt) is available for download, the
>>> build can point to it, and will use the jfxwebkit and media natives from
>>> that build. So if we had a nightly build available, most developers
>>> could use that (it wouldn't help anyone making native changes to WebKit,
>>> but would be fine for most developers who don't).
>>> 
>>> -- Kevin
>>> 
>>> [1] https://github.com/javafxports/openjdk-jfx/pull/121
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 8/25/2018 12:27 AM, Johan Vos wrote:
>>>> We currently don't build WebKit with Appveyor/Travis, as the combined
>>>> build
>>>> time would be too long.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm wondering though if it would be possible to have separate build jobs
>>>> for webkit? Typically, when building a JavaFX SDK, the webkit part is
>>>> where
>>>> things go wrong (if they go wrong), and have that somehow automated would
>>>> be very helpful.
>>>> 
>>>> - Johan
>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Tom Schindl, CTO
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