macOS build?

[roman01la]

Hello! Is it possible to build WPE for macOS? Right now the build fails bc EGL is missing on macOS, but if I understand correctly there's CGL on macOS which perhaps could be used in WPE?

[aperezdc]

Currently WPE requires using EGL, sorry. The path of least resistance might be to use ANGLE's EGL wrapper, but I cannot tell you from the get-go how likely that is to work. For the moment it is out of our radar to work on supporting WPE on Mac (or iOS), but contributions in this regard would certainly be welcome.

If somebody wants to contribute in this (or any other other topic), I would also encourage it contribute the patches to webkit.org upstream first 💪

[peraronsson]

What is the status of this today, five years later?

[magomez]

WPE can't be used on macOS. It's intended to be used on linux based systems only, and I'm afraid that there are no plans to make it buildable on macOS so far.

[peraronsson]

My use case is app development on MacOS for WPE, so I want different versions of WPE browsers to quickly test the app on. Maybe a Linux VM is the way forward?

[aperezdc]

@peraronsson Yes, WPE should work fine inside a Linux VM under MacOS.

[AgnewGriffith]

Hi, Ive had this issue for ages, but found that using the Virtual Machine program UTM, it works on Mac M1s, where I use a Ubuntu VM and run Gnome web or Epiphany web Browser. I can access the same as using Chrome:inspect.
Hope this helps ?