Thursday, 8 November 2012

Re: NetSurf Developer Workshop

In article
<OUT-509AE391.MD-1.4.17.chris.young@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk>,
Chris Young <chris.young@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk> wrote:

> Sounds like the problem I was getting, which this patch fixes:
> http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/patch/?id=24c43ea6a210cd1b98e911d989de400ef343e7bb

> NetSurf won't build with 1.70 (yet), and me and Ole can't get 1.80 to
> work on big-endian hosts, but if that is an endian problem it's not
> going to be relevant for RISC OS/ARM. Beyond 1.80 you're into C++ and
> NSPR territory, whch adds porting complexity and increasingly bloaty
> executables.

That seems to have done the trick with 1.80. I can see from the log file
that NetSurf is parsing the javascript. A lot of sites make NetSurf crash
with a JS_Assert() though. Promising nonetheless.

Chris.

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