Re: Non SSE Build

In message <20200519131231.GO6433@pepperfish.net>
Rob Kendrick <rjek@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:53:44AM +0000, David Feugey wrote:
>> Yes, I tried and I get some illegal instruction error.
>>
>> I did have the same kind of problem with Fireworkz, and it was a SSE
>> problem.
>> But perhaps it's a MMX issue too. I don't know.
>>
>> That's why I would like to test with some other build options, and check
>> it on some old hardware.

> I believe if you have a Linux box to hand, building any of our ports is
> reasonably straightforward as we provide pre-built toolchains and
> instructions on how to drive it all. (We cross-compile everything from
> Linux because life's too short to build software on RISC OS and Windows
> natively.)

I don't have such a machine. But it should be possible :)
I"ll try later, when time will allow it.

> Modifying the Makefiles to pass something like -march=i586 should target
> CPUs with no MMX oe SSE support.

OKI DOKI

David
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