Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Evaluating NetSurf for project

Hello,

I have recently started investigating the possible use of NetSurf for use in my project which is being built on Ubuntu 18.04 and has a majority of it already written in C++ but now need to integrate some features for which NetSurf seems to be a perfect fit.

Currently, I have been able to compile & run the "nsgtk" browser which runs nicely.

Additionally, I have been able to complie the "nsfb" (framebuffer) frontend example which seems to compile just fine, but when I try to run it, I keep getting the same error messages:

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~/scraping$ ./nsfb
Message translations failed to load
Unable to initialise framebuffer
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I have tired to place the "framebuffer/res" and "netsurf/resources" folders in various locations as described in the documentation, but still I get the same message above.

I think that the nsfb is the starting point that I need, but would like to see it function as the build went well, but just the placement of some files seems to be the problem, although I am not completely sure.

Actually, it would be good to just have the needed "res" folder relative to the nsfb application which seems simplest to me but that is for later.

can you please assist?

Best Regards,
Lonnie T. Cumberland, PhD.
Email: Lonnie.Cumberland@Outstep.com

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