Re: webkit with poky(yocto) on top of directfb and not X11

[Robert Berger <gmane@reliableembeddedsystems.com>]

Hi,

On 04/08/2011 05:07 AM, Yu Ke wrote:
> 
> I am also new to the DirectFB, some here is just preliminary thought for
> your referrence.
> 
> From the dependency point of view, you want a webkit-fb which is
> depending on gtk+-fb which in turn is depending on DirectFB. so probably
> you need:
> - a gtk-fb recipes. it can reuse current gtk+ recipe, but add directfb
> target, like EXTRA_OECONF += " --with-gdktarget=directfb "
> - a webkit-fb recipe: it can reuse the current webkit-gtk recipe, but
> add directfb target: EXTRA_OECONF += " --with-target=directfb "

I did not try it yet with yocto/poky, but last time we tried webkit over
gtk+ over directfb it turned out that what you suggest exists, but only
partially;)
If you are brave enough to build it you will find that there is actually
still a dependency on X11, which needs to be stubbed.

You might want to have a look here to see what I mean:
http://old.nabble.com/Plug-in-support-on-DirectFB-Webkit-td22287620.html

> 
> it is not related to qt4-embedded, so you don't need to add qt4-embedded.
> 
> Regards
> Ke

Regards,

Robert