re: netsurf-sdl on Windows?

From: Ole
>  make TARGET=framebuffer
>
>  the "make TARGET=windows" will attempt to build the native windows
>  executable.

Thanks.  TARGET=framebuffer is what I was looking for.

>
>
>  The framebuffer library "libnsfb" requires X11 libraries...
>  I once submitted a patch to the list that disables specific libnsfb
>  backends.
>  Just remove the X and maybe other not-so-important dependencies from
>  the libnsfb
>  makefiles and you should be able to compile the lib.
>  After you have installed libnsfb, you should be able to link
>  framebuffer-sdl for windows.

Made a few changes to the makefile and a few other files and it looks
like it builds the library fine on Windows.

From: John-Mark Bell
> Why not use the native Windows frontend?
>
> The framebuffer frontend is totally unsuitable for use on systems that
> have a full-featured window manager.

I was hoping to use the SDL version on a couple of platforms including
Windows.  I suppose I could build each one natively though.  If I can
get it to build, long-term plan was not to use it as a web browser,
but more of a cross-platform replacement for dialog.  Was thinking I
could possibly replace the part that sends form data to a server with
the ability to store the information locally to a file.  I wouldn't
even need the web access capabilities, just the capabilities to
interpret HTML and CSS and render pages.  There are cross-platform
replacements for dialog, but I'd really like to have something that
can use standard web syntax (HTML, CSS, etc.) for creating interfaces.

>
> What issues? Please provide the exact build output.
>

I don't specifically know what the issue was when I tried to build
netsurf-2.8 versus netsurf-r13571, but I appear to have my include
paths set appropriately with the latter and I can't get them set
properly with the prior.  I thought I went through the same steps in
both, but something is different.  Since I appear to be having less
issues with the netsurf-r13571 tarball, I'm concentrating on trying to
build using it.

When I run make TARGET=windows I see no error messages.  I redirected
standard output and standard error to a file.  Looking over the file,
there are just warnings.  Checking the build-windows-windows
directory, I see object files (108 of them).  There are no libraries
or executables built.  I did go in and hardcode $userinfo{USERNAME},
$gecos and $hostname in svn-testament.pl since it was having some
trouble running.

Last lines that are output when I run make for the windows target are:
M.CONFIG: JPEG (libjpeg) enabled       (NETSURF_USE_JPEG := YES)
M.CONFIG: JNG/MNG/PNG (libmng) disabled      (NETSURF_USE_MNG := NO)
M.CONFIG: PDF export (haru) disabled      (NETSURF_USE_HARU_PDF := NO)
M.CONFIG: glibc internal iconv disabled      (NETSURF_USE_LIBICONV_PLUG := NO)
M.CONFIG: BMP (libnsbmp) enabled       (NETSURF_USE_BMP := YES)
M.CONFIG: GIF (libnsgif) enabled       (NETSURF_USE_GIF := YES)
M.CONFIG: PNG (libpng)   enabled       (NETSURF_USE_PNG := YES)
M.CONFIG: SVG (libsvgtiny) disabled      (NETSURF_USE_NSSVG := NO)
M.CONFIG: PNG/JNG/MNG (libmng) disabled      (NETSURF_USE_MNG := NO)
TESTMENT: unchanged
If I run make TARGET=windows again, those lines are all I get back.

When I tried running make TARGET=framebuffer, I got several errors
back.  Some of them include:
image/mng.c:29:20: fatal error: libmng.h: No such file or directory
[ I thought I had MNG disabled, but appears framebuffer mode still
wants the library installed. ]
framebuffer/thumbnail.c:66:16: error: 'NSFB_SURFACE_RAM' undeclared
(first use in this function)
framebuffer/thumbnail.c:71:41: error: 'NSFB_FMT_XBGR8888' undeclared
(first use in this function)
framebuffer/thumbnail.c:73:2: error: incompatible type for argument 1
of 'nsfb_init'
framebuffer/thumbnail.c:90:2: error: too many arguments to function
'nsfb_plot_copy'
framebuffer/localhistory.c:22:23: fatal error: sys/ioctl.h: No such
file or directory
framebuffer/gui.c:22:23: fatal error: sys/ioctl.h: No such file or directory
framebuffer/framebuffer.c:196:3: error: too many arguments to function
'nsfb_plot_copy'
framebuffer/framebuffer.c:241:4: error: too many arguments to function
'nsfb_plot_copy'
framebuffer/framebuffer.c:355:22: error: storage size of 'fbtype' isn't known
framebuffer/framebuffer.c:356:24: error: storage size of 'fbfmt' isn't known
framebuffer/framebuffer.c:361:14: error: 'NSFB_FMT_XRGB8888'
undeclared (first use in this function)
...
framebuffer/convert_image.c:22:17: fatal error: png.h: No such file or directory
[ My png.h is in /usr/local/include.  I'm guessing if this was
switched from <png.h> to "png.h", it'll find it. ]
cc.exe: error: build-windows-framebuffer/caret_image.c: No such file
or directory
cc.exe: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
make: *** [build-windows-framebuffer/build-windows-framebuffer_caret_image.o]
Error 1

The errors look fixable. Don't know whether I should try to get the
framebuffer version to compile without errors or concentrate on why
the windows version doesn't generate anything other that object files
(and .d files). The framebuffer version may have the same issue as
the windows version once it gets past the compiler errors.

Any further suggestions appreciated. Thanks again for the help with
the target command.