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Restore Netsurf port #277

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klange opened this issue Apr 18, 2023 · 2 comments
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Restore Netsurf port #277

klange opened this issue Apr 18, 2023 · 2 comments

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klange commented Apr 18, 2023

ToaruOS once had a port of Netsurf, circa 2016. We should bring that back.

Netsurf has some dependencies which don't exist in the current port catalog:

  • Curl, which builds with some minor patches, including support for mbedtls.
  • zlib, which shouldn't have any issues, it was just largely obviated by toaru_inflate.
  • libpng, again, was obviated by toaru_png; I'd rather not rewrite things to use our libraries, so just porting these is worthwhile.
  • Freetype, which was working in Toaru 1.14.
  • libjpeg, which is optional but desirable; our JPEG parser is insufficient for most images on the Internet anyway.

During the last port of Netsurf, we did not have a BSD sockets layer and the Curl port was largely stubbed, so I'm not sure we were ever even able to load web pages, just local files on disk. I expect things will go a bit better this time around.

The framebuffer backend for Netsurf supports SDL, and the first pass at porting Netsurf should use it. A future improvement might be to write a native Yutani frontend - possibly one that makes use of our menu and button libraries.

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klange commented Apr 18, 2023

Curl builds with minor patches. Some changes to our libc were implemented to support it, but it also needs a couple of kludges to disable calls to select that were not guarded behind HAVE_SELECT, as well as disabling some uses of getaddrinfo that were not allowing failure.

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Additionally, some changes to the configure script were necessary to support shared library builds, which are now functioning.

I will formulate patches for these changes and prepare Curl for packaging. My next focus will be on zlib, libpng, and freetype.

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klange commented Apr 24, 2023

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