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

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

[Robert Berger]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to get a webkit with yocto/poky built
without X11, but directfb instead.

Grepping through the poky tree that's what I see:

sato contains a webkit, which depends on gtk+, which runs on x11/clutter.

... but there is also a qt4-embedded package, which seems to run on top
of directfb and has a dependency with webkit.

Does this mean, that if I build/install qt4-embedded and kill the
X-server on a sato image that I'll have a webkit on top of directfb?

Is this supposed to be the right way to achieve webkit over directfb?

Please advise.

Regards,

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

[Yu Ke]

on 2011-4-7 3:22, Robert Berger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to get a webkit with yocto/poky built
> without X11, but directfb instead.
>
> Grepping through the poky tree that's what I see:
>
> sato contains a webkit, which depends on gtk+, which runs on x11/clutter.
>
> ... but there is also a qt4-embedded package, which seems to run on top
> of directfb and has a dependency with webkit.
>
> Does this mean, that if I build/install qt4-embedded and kill the
> X-server on a sato image that I'll have a webkit on top of directfb?
>
> Is this supposed to be the right way to achieve webkit over directfb?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert..."The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group
> divided by the number of people in the group." - unknown
>
> My public pgp key is available at:
> http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x90320BF1

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 "

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

Regards
Ke

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

[Robert Berger]

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

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

[Robert Berger]

Hi,

You can find also in openembedded __nonworking__ recipes:

http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/recipes/nonworking/gtk+/gtk+-directfb_2.10.14.bb

So I guess this approach needs quite a bit of cooking and it's
questionable if and how the webkit plugin infrastructure will work.

Regards,

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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 06 April 2011 20:22:31 Robert Berger wrote:
> ... but there is also a qt4-embedded package, which seems to run on top
> of directfb and has a dependency with webkit.
> 
> Does this mean, that if I build/install qt4-embedded and kill the
> X-server on a sato image that I'll have a webkit on top of directfb?
> 
> Is this supposed to be the right way to achieve webkit over directfb?

I don't know that there's one "right" way - Ke has suggested a gtk+ based 
solution, but qt4-embedded should also work in the way you described, in that 
it will provide a webkit-based web browsing widget for your application that 
can be used without X.

In this scenario you would create a recipe for your application that would 
inherit from the qt4e bbclass, and then create a custom image that would 
install your application's package, and shared library dependencies will pull 
in the appropriate Qt4-embedded packages automatically. The finishing touch 
would be an init-script that started your application on boot.

(I guess it would be useful to document some of this Qt4 stuff in a little more 
depth at some point.)

Cheers,
Paul