Bug 196222 – [WPE][GTK] Include the needed parts of ThidParty/libwebrtc in tarballs

• Status: NEW
• Component: Tools / Tests

[Adrian Perez]

Eventually, we want to be able to make builds with WebRTC support
enabled from release tarballs.

[Adrian Perez]

Created attachment 365925 [details]
WIP Patch


First pass at having the libwebrtc sources in the tarballs. With
this it is already possible to build the WPE and GTK ports from
their tarballs passing -DENABLE_WEB_RTC=ON to CMake. The tarballs
are still bloated (~50 MiB) and include many things which are not
strictly needed, so I will look into improving that.

[Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez]

I would like to test this but I'm unable to correctly execute the make-dist script.

Do you have an example of how this script is executed to create release tarballs?

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

make-dist -c -s <source-dir> path/to/manifest/file

I usually run it from WebKitBuild/Release, so I do:

$ make-dist -c -s../../ manifest.txt

[Michael Catanzaro]

If you include this in tarballs before removing BoringSSL, people will build with it enabled, and GPL violations will result.

[Adrian Perez]

(In reply to Carlos Garcia Campos from comment #3)
> make-dist -c -s <source-dir> path/to/manifest/file
> 
> I usually run it from WebKitBuild/Release, so I do:
> 
> $ make-dist -c -s../../ manifest.txt

Alternatively, pass “-DDEVELOPER_MODE=ON” to CMake, and then
use “make dist” (or “ninja dist”).

The patch is very WIP and doesn't work. When I stopped working
on it it was at the point where a bit over a half of libwebrtc
would build from a WebKitGTK tarball. It needs work.

The BoringSSL issue mentioned by Michael is *very* real, so the
idea here was to include the needed sources in the tarball, but
leave the WebRTC support disabled by default, and making CMake
spit out a big fat warning about the licensing when enabled.

[Michael Catanzaro]

$0.02: nobody will read what CMake prints. Options we provide will be enabled somewhere.