Update webkitgtk-3.0 to webkit2gtk-4.0

[adrianptr]

Hello, the last package webkitgtk for msys2 is at version 2.4, but the last version of webkitgtk is 2.18. Most apis are deprecated. Please update this.

[Alexpux]

2.4 is the last version that can be build with mingw. So there are will no updates anymore.
You can try to build last version yourself and patch it. If you success you can create pull request

[lazka]

If someone wants to play around here is a basic PKGBUILD for webgit2gtk. It compiles at least some files before failing :)

https://github.com/lazka/msys2-staging/tree/master/mingw-w64-webkit2gtk

[lazka]

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183776#c2

[revelator]

Have also been trying to get the new version building, so far with little success im afraid.
Build system also changed in later versions from autotools to cmake based and it needs a ton of patches to even get some parts of it building on windows (atleast with the current gcc version). It might get further with an older gcc version because some build erors seem to be related to recent api changes.

[allforabit]

Perhaps this could be of some help? https://gist.github.com/baylej/d32be86616104569b29b

[lazka]

It's unlikely that we'll manage to get this building and maintained without upstream officially supporting Windows.

If something changes feel free to post here or create a new issue.

[darkguy2008]

Do we have any news this year of having WebKitGTK on Windows? By the issue above from gir.core it seems it should be possible now, no?

[Alexpux]

@darkguy2008 as I know there are no volunteers to do this work

[DShelgren]

It's doable, but NOT redistributable as far as I know. I absolutely hard needed it. Yep having to use some semi commercial options in the now, but there's still hope.

[BehroozAmoozad]

@DShelgren Are you able to use it right now? what did you end up doing?

[Kreijstal]

It's doable, but NOT redistributable as far as I know. I absolutely hard needed it. Yep having to use some semi commercial options in the now, but there's still hope.

how did you do it?

[ZachBacon]

It's doable, but NOT redistributable as far as I know. I absolutely hard needed it. Yep having to use some semi commercial options in the now, but there's still hope.

how did you do it?

Note that they said it's doable, not that they did it.

[BehroozAmoozad]

I ended up running a custom web server and did my renders using webkit on Linux, converted the results to png and pdf and to cups from there. Took us like 500 developer hours for the entire thing including a very advanced print backend.

[lazka]

If you have control over the html and just need it rendered, maybe https://weasyprint.org would work for you.