-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Build Instructions for BeOS and Haiku NetSurf 13 February 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 issues to sort out for other BeOS versions. There are still pending fixes against SVN before it can be build from BeOS or Haiku. Building and executing NetSurf ================================ To build NetSurf on a BeOS or Haiku, provided you have the relevant build dependencies installed, simply run: $ make If that produces errors, you probably don't have some of NetSurf's build dependencies installed. See "Obtaining NetSurf's dependencies" below. You may need to "make clean" before attempting to build after installing the dependencies. Also note BeOS has an old make command that won't work, see below. Obtaining NetSurf's dependencies ================================== Many of NetSurf's dependencies are either installed or available for BeOS and Haiku. The remainder must be installed manually. The NetSurf project's libraries --------------------------------- The NetSurf project has developed several libraries which are required by the browser. To fetch each of these libraries, run the following commands: $ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libparserutils $ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libwapcaplet $ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/hubbub $ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libcss $ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libnsgif $ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libnsbmp $ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/librosprite $ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libsvgtiny To build and install these libraries, simply enter each of their directories and run: $ make install | Note: We advise enabling iconv() support in libparserutils, which vastly | increases the number of supported character sets. To do this, | create a file called Makefile.config.override in the libparserutils | directory, containing the following line: | | CFLAGS += -DWITH_ICONV_FILTER | | For more information, consult the libparserutils README file. TODO: add some more here. rc ---- Building NetSurf needs the Haiku resource compiler (rc), that allows importing files from resource definitions (.rdef). $ cd $ TARGET_PLATFORM=r5 jam -q rc $ cp generated/objects/dano/x86/release/tools/rc/rc /boot/home/config/bin/ GNU make 3.81 --------------- BeOS has an old make tool, which won't work when building NetSurf. Haiku has 3.81 which is the one that works. For BeOS, one has to replace the original make with one built from the Haiku tree, or install it as gmake: $ cd $ TARGET_PLATFORM=r5 jam -q make $ cp generated/objects/r5/x86/release/bin/make/make /boot/home/config/bin/gmake cURL ------ NetSurf uses cURL to fetch files from the network. There is a patch against the official version on HaikuPorts. TODO libmng -------- NetSurf uses libMNG to display MNG and PNG files. It should build just fine on BeOS. libjpeg --------- NetSurf uses libjpeg to display JPEG files. It should already be available in your dev kit. OpenSSL ---------- NetSurf uses OpenSSL for encrypted transfers. General requirements ---------------------- There is currently an issue on stdbool.h (unsigned char bool vs enum bool) which needs to be fixed, for now one can use the Haiku version of the header and copy it over the gcc-provided one. $ cd $ cp headers/build/gcc-2.95.3/stdbool.h /boot/develop/tools/gnupro/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-beos/2.95.3-beos-060710/include/stdbool.h 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.