Add GTK4/libadwaita build instructions alongside Qt.
Add Documentation/GtkFrontend.md with GTK-specific coding style
rules and a manual test checklist.
We've had some impressive efforts going into setting up and maintaining
GN as an alternative to CMake, but as of today we're still using CMake
and the GN files have bitrotted quite severely.
We've found no convincing reason to keep maintaining two build systems
in parallel - so let's remove GN and make life a bit simpler for us.
The 'CMake --preset default' examples are now invalid, because the
'default' preset no longer exists.
Update all examples to use 'Release' preset.
Update the wording at line 305 to Release preset.
This is largely based of off the work done by Andrew Kaster in #5918.
Having this toggle makes much more sense, especially if there will be
more UIs in the future.
Co-authored-by: Andrew Kaster <andrew@ladybird.org>
* It is required for more than LibJS, so let's just remove that note.
* Only recommend using rustup to install the toolchain. System package
managers have been found to be too out of date.
There's now an ENABLE_RUST CMake option (on by default).
Install Rust via rustup in devcontainer scripts, document the
requirement in build instructions, and add Cargo's target/ directory
to .gitignore.
After installing Arch Linux 2026.02.01 and following the instructions
in Documentation/BuildInstructionsLadybird.md to install the
dependencies, using git command will fail due to missing pager less.
- Remove automake: base-devel already depends directly on it.
- Remove qt6-wayland: QT 6.10 added Wayland support to qt6-base.
- Add Python and Git: Not part of base or base-devel and are listed for
Ubuntu.
Starting with CMake 3.30 and CMakePresets version 9, the include field
supports interesting macro expansions. We can now define platform
specific presets in separate files and include them in the top-level
CMakePresets.json, while keeping the same preset names across all
platforms. This avoids some preset explosion at the cost of some mostly
empty json files for each unix platform.
The CMake minimum required in the top-level and Lagom CMakeLists.txt
have not been adjusted in this patch, as that would have the effect of
changing the default policy versions and is a bit out of scope.
Provide help with out-of-date openSUSE packages.
Update the libpulse-devel and qt6-multimedia-devel instructions
when dynamic linking errors are encountered.
Now that headless mode is built into the main Ladybird executable, the
headless-browser's only purpose is to run tests. So let's move it to the
testing directory and rename it to test-web (a la test-js / test-wasm).
This will allow us to re-use this logic from within other python
scripts. The find_compiler.sh script still exists, as it is used by
some other bash scripts. The pick_host_compiler() function will now
execute find_compiler.py and store its result in $CC and $CXX.
Note that the python script supports Windows.
The required and recommended compiler versions are sort of scattered
across several documents. Let's list them in a single document, and
have other documents refer to that location.
The language here intentionally recommends the same compiler versions
used in CI. The find_compiler.sh script can be updated with the
minimum known good version.
When using non-BFD linkers, something about our CMake setup causes
visibility checks from GenerateExportHeader to fail when clang-scan-deps
is not found.
The provided patchelf from vcpkg is only version 0.14.3, which is too
old to produce working binaries on Fedora 42. Using that old version
causes hard to debug issues where applications segfault during startup.
A significant portion of reported build problems come from people trying
to build Ladybird with Nix, and it seems there's always something broken
for someone. The maintainers are currently not focused on supporting
Nix, and as a result PRs are not reviewed as well as they could have
been.
This removes all Nix-related files.
Add a formatter output to the flake (`nix fmt`), along with moving +
renaming the devshell so it will work by running `nix-shell` in the root
of the project.
The reason for this change is that CMake/vcpkg are unable to detect a
change to VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE. So when we switch to dynamic builds,
the switch would be non-functional, and every developer would have to
remove their Build and vcpkg cache directories manually. By changing
these directories, vcpkg is able to detect it must rebuild.
