Build from source fails (mac)

[jorgenskogmo]

Hi,

Falling in love with this project - and want to compile it myself, so I tried to follow the instructions on the Building-node-webkit wiki page:

• downloaded chromium (using the 'Bootstrap using the tarball' option)
• created the .gclient file (as pr instructed in Building-node-webkit#Get the Code)
• ran gclient sync (which took 3 hours)
• applied the patch
• ran build/gyp_chromium
• opened the ~/node-webkit/src/content/content.xcodeproj (using xcode 4.5)
• selected the 'nw' target
• ran Archive (there is no "release" build option in newer xcode versions)
  -> Build failed.
• ran gclient runhooks
• opened the ~/node-webkit/src/build/all.xcodeproj (using xcode 4.5)
  -> (xcode still crawling after 30 minutes...)

(Mac OS X 10.8.2 on a retina macbook pro)

Would love some advice!

[zcbenz]

Don't use XCode, it's the worst IDE I have ever met...

You can build with ninja under terminal, by running:
GYP_GENERATORS='ninja' ./build/gyp_chromium -Dtarget_arch="ia32"
ninja -C out/Release -j4 nw

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Jørgen Skogmo notifications@github.comwrote:

Hi,

Falling in love with this project - and want to compile it myself, so I
tried to follow the instructions on the Building-node-webkit wiki page:

• downloaded chromium (using the 'Bootstrap using the tarball' option)

• created the .gclient file (as pr instructed in
  Building-node-webkit#Get the Code)

• ran gclient sync (which took 3 hours)

• applied the patch

• ran build/gyp_chromium

• opened the ~/node-webkit/src/content/content.xcodeproj (using xcode
  4.5)

• selected the 'nw' target

  ran Archive (there is no "release" build option in newer xcode
  versions)

  -> Build failed.

  ran gclient runhooks

  opened the ~/node-webkit/src/build/all.xcodeproj (using xcode 4.5)
  -> (xcode still crawling after 30 minutes...)

(Mac OS X 10.8.2 on a retina macbook pro)

Would love some advice!

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/69.

Cheng
Intel Open Source Technology Center

[jorgenskogmo]

Don't use XCode, it's the worst IDE I have ever met...

Charming.

You can build with ninja under terminal, by running:
GYP_GENERATORS='ninja' ./build/gyp_chromium -Dtarget_arch="ia32"
ninja -C out/Release -j4 nw

Sure, then Ninja fails with:

ninja: Entering directory `out/Release'
ninja: error: '../../third_party/node/config.gypi', needed by 'gen/node_natives.h', missing and no known rule to make it

[edit]

Seems this has happened before ( #8 )

cd ~/node-webkit/src/third_party/node/
./configure

Fails with a KeyError, but at least the '../../third_party/node/config.gypi' file was created.

Trying to build again (ninja -C out/Release -j4 nw)
runs for a while, then dies with:

../../base/message_pump_mac.mm:584:9: error: use of undeclared identifier 'uv_run_once_nowait'
uv_run_once_nowait(uv_default_loop());
^
1 error generated.
[3660/8686] CXX obj/base/metrics/base.field_trial.o
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

[zcbenz]

It's my fault, I forgot to push newest changes to my node repository, you can update the node repository and then retry:

cd node-webkit/src/third_party/node/
git pull

[jorgenskogmo]

thanks! Pull done.

Now the build fails at:

../../content/nw/src/shell_browser_context.h:37:7: error: 'GetMediaRequestContextForStoragePartition' marked 'override' but does not override any member functions

[zcbenz]

I reviewed your steps and found you're using the Bootstrap using the tarball way. I think you also need to update the Chromium repository (which gclient sync will not do), you can follow the section Update to upstream of Building node-webkit to update it.

[jorgenskogmo]

yay! Build completed :-) Thank you so much for your assistance.

Summarizing required steps:

• download chromium (using the 'Bootstrap using the tarball' option)
• create the /path-to-node-webkit/.gclient file (see Building node webkit #Get the Code)
• cd /path-to-node-webkit
• run gclient sync (takes hours)
• cd /path-to-node-webkit/src
• git pull
• cd /path-to-node-webkit
• gclient sync
• cd /path-to-node-webkit/src/third_party/WebKit
• git apply ../../content/nw/patches/webkit.patch
• cd /path-to-node-webkit/src
• GYP_GENERATORS='ninja' ./build/gyp_chromium -Dtarget_arch="ia32"
• ninja -C out/Release -j4 nw

Find the fresh node-webkit in /path-to-node-webkit/out/Release/