building webkit gtk on linux (ubuntu)

• Here are the simple steps to build webkit gtk port on linux (Ubuntu).

In order to build the webkit on linux you need to follow the below steps.

1) Installing dependencies.

Create a shell script deps.sh in your folder and copy bellow contents to it.

apt-get install subversion gtk-doc-tools autoconf automake libtool libgtk2.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libicu-dev libxslt-dev libsoup2.4-dev libsqlite3-dev gperf bison flex libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libxt-dev autotools-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libenchant-dev libgail-dev

run the deps.sh as admin.

sudo sh deps.sht

2) Getting the source code.

There are two options for getting the source code.

i) download the tar ball from http://nightly.webkit.org/ under source.

This is the faster way of getting the code but it is recommended if you want to just wants play with the the code and not to contributing to webkit community. Note this will not give you the Layout Tests.

ii) checkout the code

svn checkout http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk WebKit

This is the slower but recommended if you want to just wants to contribute to webkit community. This will also checkout the LayoutTests for you.