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diff --git a/Docs/BUILDING-BeOS b/Docs/BUILDING-BeOS index 8d33a6808..8642861d3 100644 --- a/Docs/BUILDING-BeOS +++ b/Docs/BUILDING-BeOS @@ -5,18 +5,23 @@ This document provides instructions for building the BeOS and Haiku version of NetSurf and provides guidance on obtaining NetSurf's build dependencies. - BeOS NetSurf has been tested on Zeta only for now. There are still some + BeOS NetSurf has been tested on Zeta and Haiku only for now. There are still some issues to sort out for other BeOS versions. + Quick Start +============= - There are still pending fixes against SVN before it can be build from BeOS - or Haiku. + See the QUICK-START document, which provides a simple environment with + which you can fetch, build and install NetSurf and its dependencies. + The QUICK-START is the recommended way to build NetSurf for Haiku. BeOS needs too much manual + hacking to be built this way. - Building and executing NetSurf + + Manual building ================================ - To build NetSurf on a BeOS or Haiku, provided you have the relevant + To build NetSurf on a BeOS, provided you have the relevant build dependencies installed, simply run: $ make @@ -38,8 +43,19 @@ --------------------------------- The NetSurf project has developed several libraries which are required by - the browser. To fetch each of these libraries, run the appropriate commands - from the Docs/LIBRARIES file. + the browser. These are: + + BuildSystem -- Shared build system, needed to build the other libraries + LibParserUtils -- Parser building utility functions + LibWapcaplet -- String internment + Hubbub -- HTML5 compliant HTML parser + LibCSS -- CSS parser and selection engine + LibNSGIF -- GIF format image decoder + LibNSBMP -- BMP and ICO format image decoder + LibROSprite -- RISC OS Sprite format image decoder + + To fetch each of these libraries, run the appropriate commands from the + Docs/LIBRARIES file, from within your workspace directory. To build and install these libraries, simply enter each of their directories and run: @@ -57,6 +73,13 @@ TODO: add some more here. + Additional requirements for BeOS +================================== + + On Haiku, other libraries and tools are either shipped with the system or available through the + package repositories. For BeOS based systems, you will need to install and update all the + required tools, as described below. + rc ---- @@ -121,7 +144,3 @@ NetSurf might build on BeOS R5 but probably won't work on anything else than BONE. - - This will pull in loads of things, like all the GTK dev libraries, the PNG - and JPEG libraries, colour management libraries, zlib, OpenSSL etc that - NetSurf also depends on. |