Native-only Linux host: compile out WebKitGTK when no web intent is declared#110
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- NATIVE_SDK_ALLOW_WEBKITGTK_STUB mirrors the Windows WebView2 seam: the define wins over header visibility, compiles out every WebKit-touching path (opaque never-non-NULL web-view pointers keep the GTK-only bookkeeping shape), and stubs the exported webview entry points - Both Linux build graphs (build/app.zig and the generated template) compile gtk_host.c with the stub and drop the webkitgtk-6.0 link when the web layer is excluded; the native scaffold's generated CI stops installing libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev Co-authored-by: WhiteHades <44260523+WhiteHades@users.noreply.github.com>
- tools/audit_web_layer.zig auto-detects PE vs ELF and hand-rolls an ELF64 reader over the section headers: DT_NEEDED entries naming libwebkitgtk/libjavascriptcoregtk and webkit_/jsc_ dynamic symbols are the evidence, refusal (never a pass) for anything it cannot parse - native package grows the ELF twin of the PE guard: a WebKitGTK-linking binary packaged under a native-only decision is refused with the same teaching message, pinned by synthetic-ELF tests covering both evidence channels Co-authored-by: WhiteHades <44260523+WhiteHades@users.noreply.github.com>
- linux-webkitgtk gains test-linux-web-layer-audit (seam under webkit-PRESENT conditions: native-only ELF scans clean, web ELF keeps its references) and linux-canvas-smoke drops libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev so the build itself is the native-only link test, with the ELF audit run on the real binary - vendor pins keep the stub define wired through gtk_host.c and both build graphs; the macOS gpu-dashboard smoke asserts a native-only session spawns zero new WebKit helper processes Co-authored-by: WhiteHades <44260523+WhiteHades@users.noreply.github.com>
- An automation-driven session on a native-only canvas app proves normal command dispatch plus the WebViewLayerNotBuilt teaching error on a webview attempt, with zero webviews reaching the platform host - The session record/replay reference journal round-trips identically under web_layer=false; the capabilities and app.zon pages note the user-visible Linux consequence (no WebKitGTK to build or run) Co-authored-by: WhiteHades <44260523+WhiteHades@users.noreply.github.com>
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- A Chromium exe packaged through zig build package shipped no CEF runtime because the CLI defaults to the system engine; forward --web-engine, --cef-dir, and --cef-auto-install exactly as the generated build graph already does
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Round B of the native-only desktop host. Round A (#107) inferred the web layer from app.zon and enforced it on Windows; this round delivers the Linux seam and the behavioral guarantees.
Native-only apps on Linux no longer need libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev to build and no longer need libwebkitgtk installed on user machines to run.