AW: New User - Hello to all - some Ideas concerning Netsurf for arm

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 14:11:43 +0200, Christian Lepper wrote:
> > > Interesting, this has never managed to hit us before and we cross-
> > > compile lots
> > > of stuff. Well spotted.
> > Should i do a bug to mantis? Just registered @
> > http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/my_view_page.php
>
> Please :-)

Done ;-)

> > > I'm afraid I'm not au-fait with fbtk, but perhaps Michael Drake can
> > > jump in here.
> >
> I suggest you report this compile error on the mantis too.

And Done ;-)

> > > Font rendering for the framebuffer frontend is handled by NS
> separately
> > > from the framebuffer physical layer.
> > > Adding SDL-ttf would imply making NetSurf's codebase have SDL
> content.
> > > Perhaps better would be to push more of the
> > > font rendering into libnsfb and then the option would open up.
> >
> > Ah okay, understood. If this point is getting interesting let me know
> about.
> > Were using SDL intensively and a lot of its children like:
> > (SDL-ttf, SDL-gfx, SDL-image, SDL-mixer, SDL-net)
> > Maybe i can help at this point.
>
> If you want to help improve libnsfb we'd be very pleased to see patches
> :-)

Will try to do so.

>
> > Yes, spent several hours getting libmozjs-24.2 make'd.
> > But i think its mostly a problem of its configure/makefiles.
> > Later today will use 18.x and check this.
> > We have the need to get js working,
> > cause we want to add our hardware stuff
> > in there to get the hardware-data
> > (like AD/Timers/Counters/gpio...)
> > to the Screen/Browser.
>
> Our JS support is *very* rudimentary for now,
> and I wouldn't expect you to want
> to rely on it working. Again, if you wanted to help with this part of
> NetSurf we'd love patches.
> Currently most (or all) of the JS work is done by
> Vincent Sanders who is overworked and underappreciated by us all :-(

Oh i see. Will try to help ;-)

>
> > Maybe the line @(0.894468)... is interesting? There is no user.css
> inside
> > the resources.
>
> user css is usually not an issue.
>
> > (0.807875) content/content.c content_add_user 601: content
> > http://www.google.de/ (0x2af078), user 0x1419c 0x28d7b0
> > desktop/browser.c:browser_window_callback:1377: chris
> > browser_window_callback_errorcode:1123: chris
> > messages_get_errorcode:282: NSERROR_BAD_ENCODING
> > (0.825468) framebuffer/misc.c warn_user 30: BadEncoding (null)
>
> This is certainly the error location. I'd be tempted to get gdb
> involved,
> breakpoint on the error handler in the browser_window_callback routine,
> and
> then examine the stack to see if I could work out where the error was
> coming from.

I already tried to include glibs backtrace / backtrace_symbols
mechanism which i use in my applications.
But it didnt work (dont know why in the moment).
I havent used yet gdb on the target and am not really familiar with it ;-(

I figure out more Infos....


Yours Chris