At Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:04:03 +0100, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> wrote: Subject: Success with Links browser port build. > > trying to attach a screenshot too. Lots of > building of dependencies, which I will > gladly share if a space is found, to have > both lynx (easy) as well as links browser > with image support > All running on a SparcStation 4 with > NetBSD 10.0. NetBSD page displays > fine. WIkipedia works too. Yay! Congratulations! I used to use links-gui extensively with sparc machines as "recently" as the NetBSD-5 days and it worked well then. Glad to see it still does. Sadly the lack of full JavaScript support in browsers is becoming more and more of an issue. https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ still works with links-gui, but google search does not. I had been hoping NetSurf would get better JavaScript support sooner, but that doesn't seem to be happening. You might want to try NetSurf anyway -- it has good CSS support. I haven't built the latest 3.11 yet, but 3.10 builds and works very well on recent NetBSD (and macos!) without some of the huge bloat of any full-features browser, though it does still require GTK-3, and even dynamic-linked it's not small, and it depends on some 60 shared libraries. If you can get GTK-3 built, then NetSurf is likely an easy build after that. Development on NetSurf seems to be proceeding, but they haven't cut a new release in a fairly long time. Dillo should work too, and does not require GTK (it uses FLTK) and so only depends on a "mere" 27 libraries. However the pkgsrc version is way out of date. Someone hijacked dillo.org (their home page is now https://dillo-browser.org/ and they have their own Git as well as mirrors on Codeberg and Sourcehut). The 3.0.5 version in pkgsrc has problems with fonts for its widgets and menus (or at least I have not yet found how to adjust them). Building FLTK does require building MesaLib, and that requires meson, and that requires a python3. -- Greg A. Woods <gwoods%acm.org@localhost> Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods%robohack.ca@localhost> Planix, Inc. <woods%planix.com@localhost> Avoncote Farms <woods%avoncote.ca@localhost>
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