-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Build Instructions for AmigaOS NetSurf 24 July 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document provides instructions for building the AmigaOS version of NetSurf and provides guidance on obtaining NetSurf's build dependencies. AmigaOS NetSurf has been tested on AmigaOS 4.0 July 2007 Update and AmigaOS 4.1. It will require modification for AmigaOS 3.9 or earlier, or other Amiga-like platforms. AmigaOS NetSurf will build against newlib by default, building against clib2 has not been tested. Building and executing NetSurf ================================= First of all, you should examine the contents of Makefile.defaults and enable and disable relevant features as you see fit by creating a Makefile.config. Some of these options can be automatically detected and used, although it is better to explicitly enable or disable options. You should then obtain NetSurf's dependencies, keeping in mind which options you have enabled in the configuration file. See the next section for specifics. Once done, to build AmigaOS NetSurf on OS4, simply run: 1> gmake If that produces errors, you probably don't have some of NetSurf's build dependencies installed. See "Obtaining NetSurf's dependencies" below, or turn off the complaining features in a Makefile.config. Running NetSurf from the build tree requires some setup: 1> makelink resources amiga/resources force 1> copy amiga/resources/themes/default/NetSurf.info NetSurf.info It should then be possible to run NetSurf by executing NetSurf from the Shell or by double-clicking on the icon. Obtaining NetSurf's build dependencies ======================================== Many of NetSurf's dependencies are included with the OS4 SDK or available from Aminet or OS4Depot. The remainder must be built manually. cURL ------ A version of libcurl built for newlib is available from Aminet http://www.aminet.net/package/dev/lib/libcurl There is a shared object version included with some OWB releases. To use this when compiling with Cairo support, a link must be made: 1> makelink sdk:local/newlib/lib/libcurl.so sobjs:libcurl-7.16.so soft libmng -------- NetSurf uses libMNG to display MNG and PNG files. It builds without any problems on OS4, or available from Aminet: http://www.aminet.net/package/dev/lib/libmng_so libxml2 --------- libxml2 is available from Aminet: http://www.aminet.net/package/dev/lib/libxml2 The shared object version included with OS4.1 does work with NetSurf, however the "ELF QuickFix" must be installed from Hyperion's website. The shared object can then be enabled with the following command: 1> makelink sdk:local/newlib/lib/libxml2.so sobjs:libxml2-2.6.so soft OpenSSL ---------- NetSurf uses OpenSSL for encrypted transfers. http://www.os4depot.net/share/development/library/misc/libopenssl.lha There is a shared object version included with some OWB releases. To use this when compiling with Cairo support, a link must be made: 1> makelink sdk:local/newlib/lib/libssl.so sobjs:libssl-0.9.8.so soft 1> makelink sdk:local/newlib/lib/libcrypto.so sobjs:libssl-0.9.8.so soft Libnsbmp ---------- NetSurf has its own library for decoding and rendering BMPs, ICOs, etc. You can check it out from svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libnsbmp To build: 1> gmake Libnsgif ---------- NetSurf has its own library for decoding and rendering GIFs. You can check it out from svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libnsgif To build: 1> gmake Hubbub -------- NetSurf requires Hubbub, the project's HTML parser. To build this, you will also require libparserutils. Firstly, check out libparserutils from; svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libparserutils and do the usual "gmake". Once this is built and installed, you can check out and build Hubbub. Check out hubbub from; svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/hubbub and again do the usual "gmake", or "gmake BUILD_SHARED=yes" for the shared object version. Librosprite ------------- NetSurf uses James Shaw's librosprite for rendering RISC OS Sprite files on non-RISC OS platforms. The Makefile will automatically use librosprite, you can disable it by creating a Makefile.config. To build librosprite, check out from svn://svn.rjek.com/jshaw/libsprite/trunk 1> gmake Libhpdf --------- NetSurf can use Haru PDF to enable PDF export and printing in GTK. This is currently enabled by default, and cannot be auto-detected by the Makefile. If you wish to disable it, do so by creating a Makefile.config. Haru PDF can be obtained from http://libharu.sourceforge.net/, although we currently depend on features that the official version does not have. You can obtain our patched version from the following Subversion address until the patches are accepted upstream; svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libhpdf libregex ---------- A version of the regular expression library can be obtained from Aminet: http://www.aminet.net/package/dev/lib/libregex-4.4.3 libsvgtiny ------------ Enabling SVG support requires libsvgtiny, which can be obtained from SVN: svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libsvgtiny Building libsvgtiny requires gperf available from Aminet: http://www.aminet.net/package/dev/c/gperf openurl.library ----------------- The AmigaOS mailto: URL support uses openurl.library, this and the includes can be obtained from Aminet: http://www.aminet.net/package/comm/www/OpenURL-OS4 General requirements ---------------------- SDK:newlib/include/strings.h needs to be modified by adding the following: extern int strcasecmp(const char *, const char *); extern int strncasecmp(const char *, const char *, size_t); amiga/version.c is generated by version.rexx using the SVN command. If the source has not been checked out from SVN, or is being cross-compiled, this file will need to be created by hand. See the end of version.rexx for the variables that are defined in the file. Please note that building with Cairo (option NETSURF_AMIGA_USE_CAIRO) will link NetSurf against shared objects, and require the OS4.1 SDK to build and AmigaOS 4.1 to run.