WebKit Cairo Windows Port Landed!


It's been a long, hard road, but today marks the commit of the last missing element of the Windows Cairo port.

Literally every bit of code I use on my system to build WebKit on Windows using the non-Apple support libraries is now part of the official WebKit archive. This means that you can now embed a WebView in your Windows application that harnesses the full power and features of the best rendering engine out there.

To celebrate, I am posting here an image of Satine.org's CSS animation demo"SnowStack". It runs fairly well on my local Debug build.

Out of sheer meanness, I am also attaching the same website viewed with IE 8...

Comments

Peter Kasting said…
Congrats, Brent.

Can't say I love all the #if PLATFORM(X) in WebFrame.cpp but sometimes you have to do whatever works :)
6:58 PM
Mital Vora said…
congrates dude !!

finally the cairo port is fully merged with Trunk :)
Its a great news :)

Good work man.
9:56 PM
Martin Robinson said…
Congrats! Your hard work is greatly appreciated.
10:09 PM
Jeff said…
Is there any hardware acceleration? How does this compare with Chrome's Skia WebKit implementation?
2:51 AM
Unknown said…
Hi Brent.
Congratulations :)

I tried to build today's build.. It won't link with cairo.lib you provide in requirements.zip You need the lib file for cairo.dll

BTW: I'm working on build where you can link static libs into one large webkit.dll file. Because this is what I call redistributable.
3:47 PM
bfulgham said…
Unfortunately, this build has no hardware acceleration. It's actually cheating a bit, falling back to a 2D projection. It works fairly well, but lacks much of the fluidity of the Mac version.
11:37 PM
Snerd said…
I always seem to have build problems in the generated files stage. Could we please get a post describing how to set up the required environment and build the WebKit tree for Windows/Cairo?
12:29 PM
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