Bug 22908

Summary: Add instructions for Windows Environment Variables
Product: WebKit Reporter: Brent Fulgham <bfulgham>
Component: WebKit WebsiteAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)   
Hardware: PC   
OS: OS X 10.5   
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Update site with instructions for WebKitOutputDir on Windows darin: review+

Description Brent Fulgham 2008-12-17 16:55:24 PST 
A very common mistake new Windows developers make when trying to build WebKit is that they forget to set the WebKitOutputDir shell variable.  When this happens, they get tons of errors when JavaScriptCoreGenerated and WebCoreGenerated attempt to build.

This patch mentions the importance of setting this variable, and links to an MSDN entry on how to do so.
Comment 1 Brent Fulgham 2008-12-17 17:01:04 PST 
Created attachment 26109 [details]
Update site with instructions for WebKitOutputDir on Windows
Comment 2 Darin Adler 2008-12-18 07:36:03 PST 
Comment on attachment 26109 [details]
Update site with instructions for WebKitOutputDir on Windows

Seems fine, r=me
Comment 3 Pam Greene (IRC:pamg) 2008-12-30 11:25:00 PST 
Landed r39519.