README.rst

In order to build QtWebKit, we need to:

• Windows: install:

  • Perl 5.22;

  • Python 2.7;

  • Ruby >= 1.9;

  • Bison and Flex (make a copy of win_flex.exe and name it flex.exe);

  • gperf; and

    Note: the GnuWin32 version of Flex is not suitable, hence we must use Win flex-bison instead.

  There are additional dependencies (ICU, libjpeg, libpng, libxml2, libxslt, SQLite and zlib) that are automatically downloaded upon building QtWebKit. (The prebuilt version of those binaries originally comes from https://github.com/Vitallium/qtwebkit-libs-win/releases, to which we removed unneeded files.)

• Linux: run the following command from the terminal:

  sudo apt install bison gperf libicu-dev libjpeg-dev libpng12-dev libsqlite3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev ruby zlib1g-dev
  

• macOS: run the following command from the terminal (if needed, install Homebrew):

  brew install jpeg libpng