Re: Building for RISC OS

In message <OUT-55E2334A.MD-1.4.17.chris.young@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk>
"Chris Young" <chris.young@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk> wrote:

>On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 21:07:47 +0100, Dave Higton wrote:
>
>> All of us on the NS users ML were reminded recently that there is no
>> maintainer of the RISC OS port of NS.
>>
>> I have looked a couple of times at the docs for building the various
>> ports of NS, but, unless I've missed something, there don't seem to
>> be any instructions for building for RISC OS.
>>
>> I understand that it's a cross compilation on a Linux machine (or a
>> very long wait for every build!). I really have very little idea
>> what I have to install on my Ubuntu box to build NS, nor what to do
>> when I have the build tools.
>>
>> So, have I missed something?
>
>This, maybe?
>http://wiki.netsurf-browser.org/Documentation/BuildingForRISCOSQuickStart

Ah, thanks. Now I understand why I couldn't find it - the information
is in a completely different place from that for the other platforms,
and not linked in any meaningful way from the NS website front page.

Anyway...

I have two Linux machines in the house, both of which run Ubuntu 14.04
32 bit. I don't believe either of them is 64 bit capable. Oh well...

Given a Linux host, is it necessary or desirable to create a separate
VM for NS development?

Dave

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