Aw: Re: Running netsurf 3.3 on Raspberry Pi in framebuffer

Hello Ole,

thank you for trying to help me. To be honest I do not have a clue hot to check, if that libnsfb is compiled with SDL backend. I just followed the "Quick Build Steps for NetSurf" instructions from the Netsurf Hompeage.

Now I tried to install a fresh latest raspbian image, and followed the steps once more. At this time, step " make TARGET=framebuffer" stops with:

COMPRESS: !NetSurf/Resources/nl/Messages
LINK: nsfb
/usr/bin/ld: /home/pi/dev-netsurf/workspace/inst-arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib/libnsutils.a(src_time.o): undefined reference to symbol 'clock_gettime@@GLIBC_2.4'
//lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/librt.so.1: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:632: recipe for target 'nsfb' failed
make: *** [nsfb] Error 1
rm !NetSurf/Resources/fr/Messages.tmp !NetSurf/Resources/en/Messages.tmp !NetSurf/Resources/nl/Messages.tmp !NetSurf/Resources/de/Messages.tmp !NetSurf/Resources/it/Messages.tmp

I would prefer to compile the 3.3 and not the 3.4 dev version, but the instructions bundled with the 3.3 sources are little bit confusing for me, thus I am not familiar with C/C++ development.

Could you give me some hints ?

Greets,
Karel
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---- Ein Mo, 08 Jun 2015 16:42:27 +0200 Ole<ole@monochrom.net> hat geschrieben ----
> Hello Karel,
>
> > (0.164048) framebuffer/gui.c:455 process_cmdline: argc 1, argv 0xbea79804
> > (0.166074) framebuffer/framebuffer.c:400 framebuffer_initialise: The sdl
> > surface is not available from libnsfb
> >
> > Am I missing something or do I get the error because of the 3.4 (Dev)
> > version ? Can someone please give me a hint how to fix this ?
>
> Did you already to try to run the framebuffer version under X11? the
> libnsfb can be compiled with several backends... SDL is one of them. When
> the build system does not detect SDL correctly (and you do not configure
> it manually somehow...), it probably just skips the build of the SDL
> backend.
>
> Maybe you have luck and the X11 backend was put into your build of libnsfb.
>
> Otherwise, make sure that libnsfb is compiled with SDL backend.
>
> I once had an problem with that...:
>
> libnsfb make use of some gcc feature (a ctor function for libraries...,
> something like that) which was unsupported by the GCC cross compiler that
> I used: SDL was never registered as valid backend when libnsfb was loaded
> and always reported that the SDL backend is not available... I had to
> manually call the registration of the backend at application startup time.
> But I think this was a very rare problem, I guess the buildsystem did not
> find your installation of SDL development files.
>
> Greets,
> Ole
>
>
>