re: netsurf-sdl on Windows?

Am Dienstag, den 08.05.2012, 09:44 +0200 schrieb LM <lmemsm@gmail.com>:

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

okay... you can also run "make test" or something like that to make sure
that it is really
compiled okay.

> 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
...
> 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.

I think it is best to build the release versions. stick to that.

> 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.
>

> TESTMENT: unchanged
> If I run make TARGET=windows again, those lines are all I get back.

try to make clean TARGET=windows or make clean TARGET=framebuffer.

> 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

libmng is not installed / cannot be found. Either install libmng at the
correct place, or
do the same with libpng and tell the netsurf build system to use libpng...
( study the makesfiles in top level directoy...)

> [ I thought I had MNG disabled, but appears framebuffer mode still
> wants the library installed. ]

ok... maybe you did it wrong.

> framebuffer/thumbnail.c:66:16: error: 'NSFB_SURFACE_RAM' undeclared
> (first use in this function)

maybe you modified the libnsfb makefiles a bit too much? The RAM surface
must be available, also the SDL one...

> framebuffer/thumbnail.c:71:41: error: 'NSFB_FMT_XBGR8888' undeclared
> (first use in this function)

strange. Maybe libnsfb isn't placed / installed in the correct location?
First, run the libnsfb tests ( read the docs...) - then install it properly.

> 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

Looks like an problem with the sources... or maybe your mingw installation
is missing something?

> The errors look fixable. Don't know whether I should try to get the
> framebuffer version to compile without errors or concentrate on why

I'm unsure if anyone has tested the SDL frontend under Windows. So that's
maybe a problem.

Greets,
Ole