Re: Fwd: Netsurf Porting

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 05:59:20PM +0530, Honey Sukesan wrote:
> 1. First of all, a direct question. Is Netsurf supported in QNX 4.25?

QNX 4 is very old! I'm not even sure if the Wacom-based C compiler it
ships with will be able to compile anything reasonably modern (we use
C99 extensively). Have things changed on this front?

> 2. We understood that NetSurf has different front ends like SDL,
> framebuffer, GTK etc. But haven't seen support for Photon GUI toolkit
> supported in QNX. We are quite confused on the framebuffer/SDL support in
> QNX 4.25.

There is no current support for Photon, either QNX 4's or 6's. If there
is an SDL port to QNX 4, it may build against that.

> We assume this toolkit may be used only by the browser part to get the user
> interface part. If so, can it be possible for us to only to port the
> rendering engine part to QNX 4.25 and use the Photon APIs in QNX for the
> front end part?

Yes, that's how the various front ends work; the renderer is shared.

> 3. If query #2 is not a possible option, could you share your thoughts on
> porting Netsurf to such an OS like us where any of these front ends are not
> supported?

You get to write the code for that :)

B.