Subject: Re: native browser
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 04/09/2002 08:40:08
On 08.04.02, 23:35:01, John Utz wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Robert Brown wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone built a small native graphical web browser for hpcmips/NetBSD? 
> > I was looking at dillo, but it's GTK based and I'm having a bitch of a 
> > time getting GTK and its related tools built in 512mb of space. And no, I 
> > don't have a spare NFS partition lying around the network to use, either 
> > :)
> 
> well, you could look at viewML (www.viewML.com) but nothing seems to be 
> happening there.
> 
> and you'd have to port FLTK as well, so the works's the same for less 
> future return in improvement.

fltk has long been available on NetBSD, and there is even a binary
package for hpcmips.

> 
> i really like dillo. it should run plenty decent on a z50. i agree 
> that building gtk is a total oinker. but it' worth it. 

Install the gtk binary package, building it is almost impossible with
only a 256MB CF card.

> 
> John L. Utz III
> john@utzweb.net
> 
> Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life
> 
> 

-- 
Bernd Sieker

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