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Just wanted to see if anyone has done this to a custom OS- and I wanted to see if it's to overkill.
Webkit is a huge piece of software and I would hate to rewrite any routines for it to fit into my OS. I'm hoping I can just compile the source code into binary my OS can read?
not sure never looked into porting over software yet. -in fact I'm still in a Concept stage, no code is yet to be written. Been looking into printing GUI to the screen. that alone looks like overkill.

Getting WebKit to run on your OS would be awesome, but the work required would be much more than recompiling. Qt runs on top of widget libraries like Qt and GTK+, which themselves use lower level libraries like Xlib and GDI. This means that there are several approaches you could take to porting, some easier than others. If you're serious about porting WebKit, their help list would be a good place to get advice.

Origyn claims to have an SDL port of Webkit, and SDL is relatively easy to port. I haven't had the time yet to have a closer look, though. If anybody has tried this, is it a viable approach?

Funny Haiku OS has a pretty good port of Webkit but the SDL port isn't soo great.

http://webpositive.haiku-os.org/