-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Build Instructions for GTK NetSurf 12 August 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document provides instructions for building the GTK version of NetSurf and provides guidance on obtaining NetSurf's build dependencies. GTK NetSurf has been tested on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora 8, FreeBSD, NetBSD and Solaris 10. Building and executing NetSurf ================================= First of all, you should examine the contents of Makefile.config and enable and disable relevant features as you see fit. Some of these options can be automatically detected and used, and where this is the case they are set to such. Others cannot be automatically detected from the Makefile, so you will either need to install the dependencies, or set them to NO. You should then obtain NetSurf's dependancies, keeping in mind which options you have enabled in the configuration file. See the next section for specifics. Once done, to build GTK NetSurf on a UNIX-like platform, 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. Or turn off the complaining features in Makefile.config. You may need to "make clean" before attempting to build after installing the dependencies. Run NetSurf by executing the "netsurf" shell script: $ ./netsurf This script makes it easy to run the nsgtk binary from the build tree. It sets up some environment variables which enable NetSurf to find its resources. If you are packaging NetSurf, see the PACKAGING-GTK document. Obtaining NetSurf's dependencies ================================== Many of NetSurf's dependencies are packaged on various operating systems. The remainder must be installed manually. Hopefully the number of NetSurf- related libraries required will have official releases, downloadable tarballs and such. But for now, you'll have to do with svn checkouts. Package installation ---------------------- Debian-like OS: $ apt-get install libglade2-dev libcurl3-dev libxml2-dev libmng-dev $ apt-get install librsvg2-dev lemon re2c Fedora: $ yum install libglade2-devel curl-devel libxml2-devel libmng-devel $ yum install librsvg2-devel lcms-devel re2c 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 and install it: $ sudo make install 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 and install it: $ sudo make install Hubbub -------- NetSurf can use Hubbub, the project's HTML parser, instead of using libxml2'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 "sudo make install". 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 "sudo make install". Librosprite ------------- NetSurf uses James Shaw's librosprite for rendering RISC OS Sprite files on non-RISC OS platforms. The Makefile will automatically use it if it can find it. You can disable it entirely by editing Makefile.config. To build librosprite, check out from svn://svn.rjek.com/jshaw/libsprite/trunk Build and install it: $ sudo make install Optionally, specify an install prefix: $ PREFIX=/path/to/install make install 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 editing 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/branches/libharu/adamblokus Lemon ------- If your distribution does not package 'lemon' (Fedora doesn't) then you'll need to download it and build it yourself. You may find it comes with the SQLite packages (SQLite's parser is built with lemon). If not, try this: $ mkdir -p /usr/local/share/lemon $ wget http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/getfile/sqlite/tool/lemon.c $ wget -O /usr/local/share/lemon/lempar.c http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/getfile/sqlite/tool/lempar.c $ sed -e's!lempar.c!/usr/local/share/lemon/lempar.c!' lemon.c > lem.c $ gcc -o /usr/local/bin/lemon lem.c General requirements ---------------------- NetSurf requires at minimum GTK 2.10. Earlier versions will not work. It also depends on Cairo for rendering, but you should have this already with versions of GTK 2.10 or later. 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.