Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets)

[Jean Louis]

* tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> [2020-11-22 15:20]:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 03:04:29PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> > I have failed shamelessly.
> > 
> > Can it be to some outdated stuff on my system?
> > 
> > git clone https://github.com/akirakyle/emacs-webkit.git
> > Cloning into 'emacs-webkit'...
> > remote: Enumerating objects: 160, done.        
> > remote: Counting objects: 100% (160/160), done.        
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (54/54), done.        
> > remote: Total 160 (delta 104), reused 160 (delta 104), pack-reused 0        
> > Receiving objects: 100% (160/160), 2.35 MiB | 219.00 KiB/s, done.
> > Resolving deltas: 100% (104/104), done.
> > ~/Programming/git $ cd emacs-webkit/ 
> > ~/Programming/git/emacs-webkit $ ls
> > LICENSE     default.nix                hints.css       script.js  
> > webkit-ace.el      webkit.el
> > Makefile    emacs-module.h             hints.js        style.css  
> > webkit-history.el  
> > README.org  evil-collection-webkit.el  screencast.gif  tests.el   
> > webkit-module.c    
> > ~/Programming/git/emacs-webkit $ make
> > cc -shared -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -O3 -fpic  
> > `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0 webkit2gtk-4.0 --libs webkit2gtk-4.0` -o 
> > webkit-module.so webkit-module.c
> > webkit-module.c: In function ‘copy_string_contents’:
> > webkit-module.c:47:13: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘malloc’ 
> > [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> >    *buffer = malloc ((size_t) buffer_size);
> >              ^~~~~~
> 
> [...]
> 
> Uh, oh. You seem to be missing fundamental packages for compiling
> things. "malloc", for example is declared in /usr/include/stdlib.h
> 
> Does this file exist on your machine? If not, you'll have to look
> for it. If yes, you'll have to adapt your compile options for your
> compiler to find it.

Yes, it does.

> Unless there's a configure step (but I don't see traces of it in
> your files list) which would be willing to do that for you.

There is no configure, I would hoping it will work out of the box as
other Emacs modules.