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

  • ICU (get v57.1 and uncompress it to C:\icu).

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

  and make sure that Qt's source code is also installed (so that we can get access to SQLite's source code).

• 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 mesa-common-dev ruby zlib1g-dev

  Note: ICU also gets built from source (after having made sure that we got the version used by Qt; find /opt/Qt -name *icu*).

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

  brew install jpeg libpng