Building WebKit for iOS Simulator

Jan 27, 2015

by Daniel Bates

I am proud to formally announce that you can now build and run top-of-tree WebKit for iOS in the iOS Simulator. We have updated the pages on webkit.org with details on building for iOS Simulator.

Note: See up-to-date build information at Building WebKit.

Early Warning System (EWS) bots for iOS are running to help contributors catch build breakage before a patch is landed. The EWS bots build 32-bit iOS WebKit for ARMv7 hardware. We chose to build this configuration because it will most likely reveal build errors that differ from the configuration built by the existing Mac EWS bots.

We are working to bring up support for running layout tests, build and test build bots and additional iOS EWS configurations to help contributors notice build issues and regressions in WebKit for iOS.

We have always encouraged you to file all WebKit bugs that you find. Since upstreaming iOS WebKit to open source in early 2014, we have tracked iOS WebKit bugs in bugs.webkit.org. Now that you are able to build and run iOS WebKit yourself, we invite you to help fix them!