Re: libseed-list questions about libseed and javascriptcore in general

[Christian Betz <christian betz gmail com>]

UPDATE: I fixed the JSGarbageCollect segfault... (it was a bug in the
old version testapi.c which tried to gc after releasing the context. i
had the misfortune of using it as a reference).

However, I would really like to use libseed anyway, because I like the
API (certainly better than spidermonkey). Heck, I like glib and
gobjects too.

(apologies for the double-post)

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Christian
Betz<christian betz gmail com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I managed to build seed on ubuntu 9.04 without much trouble. I am
> impressed and I have a very, very good feeling that seed will catch
> on. So, what are the major issues remaining before I can begin hyping
> this awesome technology? ;)
>
> Some background -- I've been working with the spidermonkey API for
> some time and was looking to dive into JavaScriptCore. The nice thing
> about spidermonkey is that there is a nice package available so that
> getting started embedding is a breeze. I struggled for a while with
> building trying to build a simple hello world type app using the jsc
> API, but failed (what I really wanted was a nice "-dev" type package
> with shared library/header files for jsc). I had given up until I
> found your project.
>
> i read that the only dependencies are webkit and
> gobject-introspection. does that mean that *in-theory* I can use
> libseed without the higher level gtk/gnome levels of the stack? the
> reason I ask is that I would like to use the libseed API on servers
> and embedded systems without X. If the answer is no, then I have a
> side question: what do you recommend as the path of least resistance
> towards using the javascriptcore api directly (without seed)? do you
> think there is ever a chance of getting just the engine/API split out
> of webkit as a separate package? is that something that people might
> be receptive to?
>
> in other words, this is all I want to do right now:
> write some C code defines a print() function in the global context and
> then evaluate "print('hello world')". I *can* get this to work using
> the PPA packages you guys provide -- but it segfaults when i call
> JSGarbageCollect at the end :(
>
> Christian
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