Subject: Re: native browser
To: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de>
From: Robert Brown <shox@shox.org>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 04/24/2002 00:40:27
Bernd,

It took me a while, but I finally went looking for your dillo package. It 
seems as if you have taken it down. Would you mind making it available 
again? It seems like the answer for a simple native graphical browser for 
NetBSD/hpcmips.

Thanks,

-Rob

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Robert Brown
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On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Bernd Sieker wrote:

> On 09.04.02, 00:34:29, josh wrote:
> > 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 
> > 
> > I have a prebuilt copy of dillo for hpcmips, dillo-0.6.4
> > It's on Andrews' z50 page.
> > or here:
> > http://www.freek.com/~dorqus/dillo.tar.gz
> > 
> > -rw-r--r--  1 dorqus  users  883959 Feb  4 22:21 dillo.tar.gz
> > 
> 
> Beware that this binary is _huge_. It can be "strip"ped to a
> reasonable size, if you don't want to debug it.
> 
> > It contains the dillo binary, and a dillorc file, which you should
> > put into ~/.dillo/dillorc
> 
> I have made a "regular" binary package of dillo, built against the
> latest png (png version numbering and downwards-compatibility is
> horrible), there is a problem with the above-mentioned dillo binary
> when you have a too new version of png installed. Even symlinking old
> library versions won't work.
> 
> My dillo package is available at:
> 
>   http://people.freenet.de/nuxi/dillo-0.6.4nb1.tgz
> 
> Here are the exact dependencies:
>   dillo-0.6.4nb1 requires installed package gettext-lib-0.10.35nb1
>   dillo-0.6.4nb1 requires installed package glib-1.2.10
>   dillo-0.6.4nb1 requires installed package gtk+-1.2.10
>   dillo-0.6.4nb1 requires installed package jpeg-6b
>   dillo-0.6.4nb1 requires installed package png-1.2.1
>   dillo-0.6.4nb1 requires installed package pth-1.4.0
> 
> I'd recommend installing gtk from a binary package, it's available at
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/hpcmips/x11/gtk+-1.2.10.tgz ,
> since gtk needs perl (about 40MB installed) to build, but not to run.
> 
> Have fun. Although dillo does not display frame, and does not handle
> JavaScript or Cookies (which I consider a feature rather than a
> short-coming), I highly recommend it. It uses small fonts, is fast and
> runs very well with only 16 MB.
> 
> I also routinely delete all my man pages on the z50. Programs I
> install there I usually know how to use. Can free up several MB, and
> I also reduce the reserved space on the filesystems to, say, 2%
> (tunefs -m 2 -o space /dev/rwd0a). You must do this in single-user
> mode and the filesystem being tuned must not be mounted rw. Reboot
> after using tunefs.
> 
> > 
> > enjoy.
> > 
> > --
> > josh
> > 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bernd
> 
>