No rule to make target 'JavaScriptCore-4.1.gir', needed by 'WebKit2WebExtension-4.1.gir' when compiling webkitgtk-2.46.3

Raphy · November 6, 2024, 12:32pm

I’m now getting this strange error during the compilation and building of the latest stable release of libwebkit2gtk:

[100%] Building CXX object Source/WebKit/CMakeFiles/WebKit.dir/__/__    
/DerivedSources/WebKit/unified-sources/UnifiedSource-54928a2b-45.cpp.o

[100%] Building CXX object Source/WebKit/CMakeFiles/WebKit.dir/__/__    
/DerivedSources/WebKit/unified-sources/UnifiedSource-54928a2b-46.cpp.o
[100%] Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/[libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so](http:/
//libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so)
[100%] Built target WebKit
gmake[2]: *** No rule to make target 'JavaScriptCore-4.1.gir', needed by    
'WebKit2WebExtension-4.1.gir'. Stop.
gmake[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1948: Source/WebKit/CMakeFiles   
/typelib-WebKit2WebExtension.dir/all] Error 2
gmake: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2

OS: Ubuntu 24.04

I’ve found that also in the past releases of webkitgtk some people had the same problem: 195251 – [GTK] No rule to make target 'JavaScriptCore-4.0.gir' . I tried the workarounds proposed, but none worked:

I also used this patched proposed: Attachment #363436 for bug #195251 but the compilation gave the same error

How to make it work?

Sid · November 6, 2024, 3:32pm

Easiest way to build packages downstream is to see how downstream builds the package.

For `Debian` / `Ubuntu` (and it’s forks):

Enable source repo in /etc/apt/sources.list file (or the file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ dir).
Run "apt update" as root / sudo.
Run "apt build-dep <package-name>" as root / sudo. This should install all needed build dependencies required to build <package-name>.
Run "apt-get source -b <package-name>". This should download source .tar.gz for <package-name> and build it locally. In this step, you can see the actual build command used (e.g. meson setup ... etc) in the build output.

Note: One can also look into debian/ dir for build rules etc, but it’s easier this way, as there may be conditionals which complicate the build args.

Raphy · November 6, 2024, 5:11pm

Hi!

I’ve put in /sources.list.d/ folder this source repo:

raphy@raohy:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ cat libjavascriptcoregtk.save 
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/w/webkit2gtk/libjavascriptcoregtk-    
4.1-0_2.44.0-2_amd64.deb

And in libjavascriptcoregtk-sources.list :

raphy@raohy:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ cat libjavascriptcoregtk-sources.list 
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/w/webkit2gtk    
/libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0_2.44.0-2_amd64.deb noble main restricted  
universe multiverse

But I get in the build-dep step :

raphy@raohy:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ sudo apt build-dep libjavascriptcoregtk

Reading package lists… Done
E: You must put some ‘deb-src’ URIs in your sources.list

Sid · November 6, 2024, 5:33pm

Refer https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine.

mcatanzaro · November 6, 2024, 5:56pm

If you’re not comfortable with debugging the build system, I would try using ninja instead (cmake -GNinja) since that’s what almost everybody else is going to be using. Probably not many users are testing the build using the Makefile backend since it’s slower and worse.

Raphy · November 6, 2024, 6:15pm

Yes. May by I have to follow this path

After successfully doing the configuration:

raphy@raohy:~/Downloads/NEW/webkitgtk-2.46.3$ cmake -GNinja -B builddir -DPORT=GTK -DUSE_GSTREAMER_WEBRTC=TRUE -DENABLE_WEB_RTC=ON -DUSE_GTK4=OFF

-- Enabled features:
--  ENABLE_BUBBLEWRAP_SANDBOX ..................... ON
--  ENABLE_DOCUMENTATION                            ON
--  ENABLE_DRAG_SUPPORT ........................... ON
--  ENABLE_GAMEPAD                                  ON
--  ENABLE_INTROSPECTION .......................... ON
--  ENABLE_JOURNALD_LOG                             ON
--  ENABLE_MINIBROWSER ............................ ON
--  ENABLE_PDFJS                                    ON
--  ENABLE_QUARTZ_TARGET .......................... OFF
--  ENABLE_SPELLCHECK                               ON
--  ENABLE_TOUCH_EVENTS ........................... ON
--  ENABLE_VIDEO                                    ON
--  ENABLE_WAYLAND_TARGET ......................... ON
--  ENABLE_WEBDRIVER                                ON
--  ENABLE_WEB_AUDIO .............................. ON
--  ENABLE_X11_TARGET                               ON
--  USE_AVIF ...................................... ON
--  USE_GBM                                         ON
--  USE_GSTREAMER_TRANSCODER ...................... ON
--  USE_GSTREAMER_WEBRTC                            TRUE
--  USE_GTK4 ...................................... OFF
--  USE_JPEGXL                                      ON
--  USE_LCMS ...................................... ON
--  USE_LIBBACKTRACE                                ON
--  USE_LIBDRM .................................... ON
--  USE_LIBHYPHEN                                   ON
--  USE_LIBSECRET ................................. ON
--  USE_SOUP2                                       OFF
--  USE_SYSTEM_SYSPROF_CAPTURE .................... ON
--  USE_WOFF2                                       ON
-- Configuring done (13.8s)
-- Generating done (0.6s)

How to compile with Ninja ? :

raphy@raohy:~/Downloads/NEW/webkitgtk-2.46.3$ cmake --build -GNinja 
builddir
Unknown argument builddir

mcatanzaro · November 6, 2024, 8:12pm

Run cmake --build builddir without -GNinja.

Raphy · November 7, 2024, 7:10am

@mcatanzaro

raphy@raohy:~/Downloads/NEW/webkitgtk-2.46.3$ cmake --build builddir/
[0/2] Re-checking globbed directories...
[3607/3623] Generating ../../../MiniBrowser/DerivedSo... ../../../MiniBrowser/DerivedSources/BrowserMarshal.h
INFO: Reading /home/raphy/Downloads/NEW/webkitgtk-2.46.3/Tools/MiniBrowser/gtk/browser-marshal.list...
INFO: Reading /home/raphy/Downloads/NEW/webkitgtk-2.46.3/Tools/MiniBrowser/gtk/browser-marshal.list...
[3622/3623] Generating documentation: WebKit2
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typogrify/filters.py:46: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
  tag = match.group(1) if match.group(1) != '' else '[^\s.#<>]+'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typogrify/filters.py:140: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\w'
  tag_pattern = '</?\w+((\s+\w+(\s*=\s*(?:".*?"|\'.*?\'|[^\'">\s]+))?)+\s*|\s*)/?>'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typogrify/packages/titlecase/__init__.py:18: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\.'
  SMALL = 'a|an|and|as|at|but|by|en|for|if|in|of|on|or|the|to|v\.?|via|vs\.?'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typogrify/filters.py:46: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
  tag = match.group(1) if match.group(1) != '' else '[^\s.#<>]+'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typogrify/filters.py:140: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\w'
  tag_pattern = '</?\w+((\s+\w+(\s*=\s*(?:".*?"|\'.*?\'|[^\'">\s]+))?)+\s*|\s*)/?>'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typogrify/packages/titlecase/__init__.py:18: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\.'
  SMALL = 'a|an|and|as|at|but|by|en|for|if|in|of|on|or|the|to|v\.?|via|vs\.?'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/smartypants.py:270: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S'
  if re.match("\S", prev_token_last_char):
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/smartypants.py:276: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S'
  if re.match("\S", prev_token_last_char):
[3623/3623] Generating documentation: WebKit2WebExtension
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typogrify/filters.py:46: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
  tag = match.group(1) if match.group(1) != '' else '[^\s.#<>]+'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typogrify/filters.py:140: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\w'
  tag_pattern = '</?\w+((\s+\w+(\s*=\s*(?:".*?"|\'.*?\'|[^\'">\s]+))?)+\s*|\s*)/?>'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typogrify/packages/titlecase/__init__.py:18: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\.'
  SMALL = 'a|an|and|as|at|but|by|en|for|if|in|of|on|or|the|to|v\.?|via|vs\.?'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typogrify/filters.py:46: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
  tag = match.group(1) if match.group(1) != '' else '[^\s.#<>]+'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typogrify/filters.py:140: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\w'
  tag_pattern = '</?\w+((\s+\w+(\s*=\s*(?:".*?"|\'.*?\'|[^\'">\s]+))?)+\s*|\s*)/?>'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typogrify/packages/titlecase/__init__.py:18: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\.'
  SMALL = 'a|an|and|as|at|but|by|en|for|if|in|of|on|or|the|to|v\.?|via|vs\.?'
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/smartypants.py:270: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S'
  if re.match("\S", prev_token_last_char):
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/smartypants.py:276: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\S'
  if re.match("\S", prev_token_last_char):
raphy@raohy:~/Downloads/NEW/webkitgtk-2.46.3$

Why when executing MiniBrowser I get this error?

raphy@raohy:~/Downloads/NEW/webkitgtk-2.46.3/builddir/bin$ ./MiniBrowser 

** (WebKitWebProcess:31595): WARNING **: 08:53:26.537: Error loading the
 injected bundle (/usr/local/lib/webkit2gtk-4.1/injected-bundle  
/libwebkit2gtkinjectedbundle.so): /usr/local/lib/webkit2gtk-4.1/injected-bundle
/libwebkit2gtkinjectedbundle.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
 directory

Why does it look for webkit2gtk in /usr/local/lib ?

raphy@raohy:/usr/local/lib$ ls -lah | grep webkit2gtk
raphy@raohy:/usr/local/lib$

After copying libwebkit2gtkinjectedbundle.so into /usr/local/lib/webkit2gtk-4.1/injected-bundle :

raphy@raohy:/usr/local/lib/webkit2gtk-4.1/injected-bundle$ ls -lah
total 4,5M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K nov  7 09:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4,0K nov  7 09:28 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4,5M nov  7 09:31 libwebkit2gtkinjectedbundle.so
raphy@raohy:/usr/local/lib/webkit2gtk-4.1/injected-bundle$

the error disappeared, but still MiniBrowser does not properly work:

Why if I do export WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 before executing MiniBrowser, the webpage is correctly rendered?

(workaround found here: [bug] blank page with webkit2gtk 2.42 · Issue #7927 · tauri-apps/tauri · GitHub)

raphy@raohy:~/Downloads/NEW/webkitgtk-2.46.3/builddir/bin$ export 
WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1
raphy@raohy:~/Downloads/NEW/webkitgtk-2.46.3/builddir/bin$ ./MiniBrowser

How to avoid to do that, fixing the problem once for all?

Raphy · November 7, 2024, 1:23pm

Sorry @mcatanzaro Michael

I have another question:

is highlighting tool supported for the pdf?
What am I missing during compilation to make the highlighting tool available?

mcatanzaro · November 7, 2024, 2:06pm

Because that’s the default install prefix and you didn’t change it.

You have to install it after building it. Use cmake --install.

Something is broken. You should create a bug report on WebKit Bugzilla.

I don’t think PDF.js has a highlighting tool.

Raphy · November 7, 2024, 7:08pm

Thank you very much for your kind help

No rule to make target 'JavaScriptCore-4.1.gir', needed by 'WebKit2WebExtension-4.1.gir' when compiling webkitgtk-2.46.3

For Debian / Ubuntu (and it’s forks):

For `Debian` / `Ubuntu` (and it’s forks):