Re: Introducing emacs-webkit and more thoughts on Emacs rendering (was Rethinking the design of xwidgets)

[Akira Kyle]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 08:01 PM, T.V Raman <raman@google.com> 
wrote:

> Got it built but it crashed on me.
>
> Hi,
>
> I git checked out and built emacs-webkit, built happily, no 
> warnings or
> errors. Read through readme.org, and it got me really excited.
>
> Added the directory to load-path, and did a simple load-library 
> of
> webkit
>
> Sadly, M-x webkit  called with either a search term, or a 
> google.com
> search URL immediately crashed emacs

Oh no! I assume this is a segfault? Can you try building with make 
debug and see if you get any more useful info? Perhaps a backtrace 
from gdb?

Someone posted a similar issue and it was due to them not running 
Emacs 28, but I just recently added a check to give an error 
message.