Question

For some days I’ve been looking forward to build QtWebkit with V8 support.

I found lot of resources over the internet, some of them old like this one from 2010:

• http://webkit.sed.hu/blog/20101216/benchmarking-qtwebkit-v8-linux

“For some time it has been possible to build and run QtWebKit on Linux
using Google’s V8 JavaScript engine instead of the default
JavaScriptCore.”

And this one from 2011:

• https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-qt/2011-January/001111.html

The current trunk should also build now with:
Tools/Scripts/build-webkit –qt –v8

I also found this one:

• http://qt-project.org/wiki/V8_Port

THE PROJECT WAS ABANDONED [bugreports.qt-project.org]

The --v8 doesn’t seems to be recognized in Webkit’s build_webkit script and there doesn’t seems to be a similar option.

A find in Webkit’s source revealed v8 tests and bindings existing in the project.

So it’s there a way to build QtWebkit with v8 or is it abandoned?

Answer 1

People at #qtwebkit (freenode.net) said that V8 support was abandoned.

But I found this that may be worth trying:

• https://github.com/qtwebkit-v8ers/qtwebkit-v8