Error when building static libraries on Linux

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fishnet37222
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Error when building static libraries on Linux

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I am trying to build the static libraries for wxWidgets 3.1 on Linux Mint 19. I keep getting the error below every time I try to build them.

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../src/gtk/webview_webkit2.cpp: In function ‘void wxgtk_initialize_web_extensions(WebKitWebContext*, GDBusServer*)’:
../src/gtk/webview_webkit2.cpp:414:9: error: ‘WX_WEB_EXTENSIONS_DIRECTORY’ was not declared in this scope
         WX_WEB_EXTENSIONS_DIRECTORY,
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../src/gtk/webview_webkit2.cpp:414:9: note: suggested alternative: ‘G_IO_ERROR_IS_DIRECTORY’
         WX_WEB_EXTENSIONS_DIRECTORY,
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
         G_IO_ERROR_IS_DIRECTORY
Makefile:36428: recipe for target 'webviewlib_webview_webkit2.o' failed
make: *** [webviewlib_webview_webkit2.o] Error 1
When I build the shared libraries, everything works fine. I've tried with the latest version from the GitHub repository with the same results. I'm using GCC 7.3.0. The version of libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev installed is 2.20.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1.
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Re: Error when building static libraries on Linux

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Hi,

With wxWidgets-3.1.0 on a Mint 19 virtualbox guest, a static build compiles for me. I first did:

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apt install libgtk2.0-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff5-dev libsm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev  libglu1-mesa-dev  autotools-dev libexpat1-dev libxt-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libgconf2-dev libwebkitgtk-dev libnotify-dev
then used the configure line:

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../configure --enable-debug --enable-cxx11 --enable-webview --disable-shared
I have installed both libwebkitgtk-1.0 and libwebkitgtk-3.0, as well as libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37. However only libwebkitgtk-dev was installed, not libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev.

I tried again after replacing libwebkitgtk-dev with libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev. This time configure failed with 'webkitgtk not found...'

Must you use libwebkit2gtk? If so, I suggest you test the latest version again in a clean subdir, and look hard at the configure output. If it failed, config.log might explain why. If it's not something missing locally, you should then report this on wxtrac.

Regards,

David
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Re: Error when building static libraries on Linux

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Using libwbkitgtk-dev won't work for me since I'm building the library against GTK3. Here is my configure command:

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../configure --disable-shared --enable-graphics_ctx --with-cxx=14 --with-gtk=3 --disable-debug
I was able to get it to work by installing libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev.
Dave F.
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