My build experience is as follow. See more at http://blog.csdn.net/lzl124631x/article/details/18098361
Environment: Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit Processor: Intel Core i7 860 Installed Memory: 4.00 GB 1. Installing VS2013: a. Install Win7 SP1 (windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe) b. Install 5 patches for IE10 ⅰ. Windows6.1-KB2533623-x86.msu ⅱ. Windows6.1-KB2670838-x86.msu ⅲ. Windows6.1-KB2729094-v2-x86.msu ⅳ. Windows6.1-KB2731771-x86.msu ⅴ. Windows6.1-KB2786081-x86.msu c. Install IE10 (IE10-Windows6.1-x86-en-us.exe) d. Install VS2013 (VS2013_RTM_ULT_ENU.iso) e. Right click on "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe", "Properties", "Compatibility", check "Run this program as an administrator". 2. Installing Cygwin a. Download cygwin-downloader.zip (http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk/Tools/CygwinDownloader/cygwin-downloader.zip) and unzip it. b. Run cygwin-downloader.exe and wait... c. Run setup.exe, select "Install from Local Directory" and install. d. Run setup.exe, select "Install from Internet" i. In steps before "Select Packages", just select default folder, whatever connection and download site. ⅱ. Select Packages: Search "gcc", expand Devel, select "gcc-g++: GNU Compiler Collection(C++)" ⅲ. Select Packages: Search "gdb", expand Devel, select "gdb: The GNU Debugger" See more at "Installing gcc with Cygwin"(http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~aamodt/ece242/cygwin.html) e. Open C:\cygwin\etc\profile ⅰ. Modify line 32 to PATH="/bin:${PATH}" ⅱ. Comment line 44-50 by adding '#' at the beginning of each line. 3. Installing SDKs a. Install QuickTime SDK (https://developer.apple.com/quicktime/) b. Install Direct SDK (June 2010 DirectX SDK:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6812) 4. Getting the Code a. Download Nightly Build (http://nightly.webkit.org/) and unzip it. My version is WebKit-r161524. b. Suppress Warning 4309: Open "WebKitLibraries/win/tools/vsprops/common.props", find tag , add 4309. c. Download Support Library (https://developer.apple.com/opensource/internet/webkit_sptlib_agree.html) and copy it into WebKit-r161524. DO NOT unzip it. d. Open Source/WebCore/platform/LocalizedString.cpp, search "Look Up", delete the DOUBLE-BYTE double quotation marks around “%@” and “”. 5. Save the following lines as a .cmd/.bat file. I named it as Build.cmd. @echo off echo Setting up links... set CYGWIN_DIR=C:\cygwin set WEBKIT_SOURCE_DIR=%~dp0% if "%WEBKIT_SOURCE_DIR:~-1%"=="\" set WEBKIT_SOURCE_DIR=%WEBKIT_SOURCE_DIR:~0,-1% for /R "delims=\" %%a in (%WEBKIT_SOURCE_DIR%) do set WEBKIT_DIR_NAME=%%~nxa set WEBKIT_LINK_DIR=%CYGWIN_DIR%\home\%username%\%WEBKIT_DIR_NAME% if exist "%WEBKIT_LINK_DIR%" rmdir "%WEBKIT_LINK_DIR%" mklink /D "%WEBKIT_LINK_DIR%" "%WEBKIT_SOURCE_DIR%" echo Exporting environment varibles... set WEBKIT_OUTPUTDIR=%WEBKIT_LINK_DIR%\WebKitBuildByCygwin set WEBKIT_LIBRARIES=%WEBKIT_LINK_DIR%\WebKitLibraries\win set VSINSTALLDIR=%VS120COMNTOOLS%..\.. set PATH=%WEBKIT_LINK_DIR%\Tools\Scripts;%PATH% echo Running Cygwin... call "%CYGWIN_DIR%\Cygwin.bat" :exit 6. Build a. run Build.cmd b. update-webkit c. build-webkit --debug | tee WebKit-r161524/log.txt Other Material: a. Building on Windows:http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingOnWindows (WebKit Team's note on building on windows) b. WebKit Wiki: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WikiStart Error Solutions: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Error Message: 17> sh: /usr/bin/gcc: No such file or directory 17> Failed to read names from file: /cygdrive/g/WEBKIT~1/Source/WebCore/html/HTMLTagNames.in at /cygdrive/g/WEBKIT~1/Source/WebCore/dom/make_names.pl line 324. 17> /cygdrive/g/WEBKIT~1/Source/WebCore/DerivedSources.make:942: recipe for target 'HTMLElementFactory.cpp' failed 17> make: *** [HTMLElementFactory.cpp] Error 127 17> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... 17> ./CSSGrammar.y:62.1: error: syntax error, unexpected end of file Solution: Install gcc to Cygwin (step 2.d). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Error Message: 17> build-generated-files.sh: line 59: cd: /home/Moon/WEBKIT~1/WEBKIT~2/Debug/obj32/WebCore/DerivedSources: Permission denied 18> c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'C:\cygwin\home\Moon\WebKit-r161524\WebKitBuildByCygwin\Debug\obj32\WebCore\DerivedSources\CSSPropertyNames.cpp': No such file or directory Solution: Right click on "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe", "Properties", "Compatibility", check "Run this program as an administrator" --------------------------------------------------------------------- Error Message: ..\platform\LocalizedStrings.cpp(248): error C2001: newline in constant Or ..\platform\LocalizedStrings.cpp(250): error C2001: newline in constant Solution: Open Source/WebCore/platform/LocalizedString.cpp, search "Look Up", delete the DOUBLE-BYTE double quotation marks around “%@” and “”.