Hi,
I'm trying to create a program that uses some of the code from WebKit/GTK+. Specifically, I want to load a string, use WebKit's parser to construct a DOM tree and then iterate over that tree.
I'm trying to use a class called HTMLDocument. WebKit/GTK+ doesn't expose this as part of its API and I'm running into some trouble linking against it.
I'm able to build WebKit/GTK+ normally, which gives me a file called: libwebkit-1.0.so. My program is:
#include <iostream>
#include <WebCore/config.h>
#include <WebCore/html/HTMLDocument.h>
using namespace WebCore;
int main() {
String title = "test";
RefPtr<HTMLDocument> d = HTMLDocument::create(0);
d->open();
d->write("<!doctype html><html><head><title>" + title + "</title></head><body></body></html>");
}
This compiles fine (I'm using the same include directives used by webkit to build), but results in linking errors.
...test_doc.cpp:18: undefined reference to `WebCore::String::String(char const*)'
...test_doc.cpp:21: undefined reference to WebCore::Document::open(WebCore::Document*)'
...(similar for every function I use)
If I run:
nm -C .libs/libwebkit-1.0.so | grep 'WebCore::Document::open'
I see:
003b1830 T WebCore::Document::open(WebCore::Document*)
which seems to indicate that the function is available. I have a reasonable amount of C++ experience, but not much experience with linking files under Linux.
I'm not expecting this exact problem to be solved, but I'm hoping someone can correct me if I have conceptual problems. My main question is why I see "undefined reference" errors when I'm linking with an .so file that lists that function as being defined. Is another file or build step needed?
Thank you very much.
Using: Ubuntu 9.10 g++ 4.4.1
g++ is invoked with:
g++ --debug -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. `pkg-config --cflags libsoup-2.4` \
-DBUILDING_CAIRO__=1 -DBUILDING_GTK__=1 -DWTF_CHANGES -DWTF_USE_ICU_UNICODE=1 \
-DNDEBUG -I./WebCore -I./WebCore/accessibility -I./WebCore/bindings/js \
-I./WebCore/bridge -I./WebCore/bridge/c -I./WebCore/css -I./WebCore/dom \
...many more webkit include directories...
-DDATA_DIR=\"/usr/local/share\" \
test_doc.cpp -o test_doc.out \
./webkit-1.1.15.3/.libs/libwebkit-1.0.so
(I get the same result with -L/path/to/lib -lwebkit-1.0)