Re: 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 :-)

> > Which shell do you use? We have several developers who use our env.sh
> > on
> > Ubuntu so we'd like to track down these issues.
>
> lucid@ubuntu:~$ bash --help
> GNU bash, version 4.2.24(1)-release-(i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> lucid@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
> Linux ubuntu 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:41:14 UTC 2012
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Running on a vmware. Nothing really interesting special.
> I will keep tarck to this too, and give notice when i figured out more.

Thanks.

> > I'm afraid I'm not au-fait with fbtk, but perhaps Michael Drake can
> > jump in here.
>
> In the moment i can live with this... was just to inform.
> e.g. for 4.

I suggest you report this compile error on the mantis too.

> > 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 :-)

> 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 :-(

> 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.

D.



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