Although it is mentioned in http://phantomjs.org/build.html, many people
are not aware this, they compile from source (even if a binary package
is available) and get shocked to realize the build takes ages.
The build script is thus modified to give the initial warning.
Unattended build is still possible, just use --confirm flag.
http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=862
Previously, a static build would produce three separate files:
QtWebKit.a, libjscore.a and libwebcore.a. These seem to have
dependencies on each other and this caused the build errors on Linux.
This change means that the sources of jscore and webcore are both built
directly into the QtWebKit.a target. libjscore.a and libwebcore.a are no
longer built. It is then possible to create a static binary on Linux.
http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=413
Debug mode turns off all optimisations. This make PhantomJS considerably
slower.
Instead, we build in 'release' mode, but generate debugging symbols at
the same time.
This may present some problems analysing crashes, if the optimisations
make that difficult. However, in my testing I was able to get useful
debug output even with optimisations enabled. So we should see how we go
- if it becomes a problem we can produce seperate debug binaries with no
optimisations.
https://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=599
This provides support for compiling the breakpad client into PhantomJS,
and generifies that Linux packaging scripts so that they also apply to
OS X and automate the symbol generation.
Building the Breakpad tool programs seems to be less than
straightforward on OS X, and documentation is poor. We have managed to
produce tools/dump-syms-mac.pro which allows building the dump_syms
program for dumping the debugging symbols. This needed a couple of
modifications to breakpad in order to compile successfully.
We have run out of time to work on making the minidump_stackwalk program
build. However, this is solely a developer tool and so it can wait until
after the 1.6 release before we complete this work.
Testing is welcome!
https://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=576
Ariya Hidayat