Re: w3chttp and fltk

On Saturday 01 August 2002 02:26, Chris Hawks wrote:
> I don't know about getting rid of fltk, but, back in January I posted
> some patches to use the (very) small libhttp from SoftOrchestra instead of
> the W3C library. See the mailing list
> (http://mail.viewml.com/Lists/viewml-devel/) starting at 19 Jan 2002.
> There were a couple of follow-up messages with more info.

Hi Chris!

I should have come looking on this mailing list first, but instead proceeded 
to pull my hair out for a day getting libwww compiled...but my problem turned 
out to be more a compiler issue.

The development board I have came with BlueCat Linux v3.1, and the 
environment they setup is a bit strange. After grabbing the arm-linux 
compiler from http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ my hair loss was reduced to a 
minimal state...the compiler from there works like most cross compilers I've 
used...and maybe the newer BlueCat 4.x stuff is better, but from what I can 
tell, LynuxWorks modifies their compiler to use some environment variables, 
and without them set, or without running their strange setup script, the 
compiler/tools toss chunks at me...

Once I installed the compiler from the arm linux site in the uk, I could 
configure and build libwww by specifying the usual --host=arm-linux param, 
and all compiled.

Anyway, I need to get a small browser going on a Cirrus Logic EP7312 board 
for a friend, and it's got a 12bit LCD to throw in an additional twist.

<vent>
It really irks me that the toolchain is so hard to get a hold of, even Monta 
Vista pulled their Journeyman CDs sometime last year (2.0 was the last) and 
it seems that most all of the vendors require a subscription of such to get 
most of the cross compiler builds of the toolchain, some offering the x86 
target as a trial. For these tools being GPL, it really burns my @$$ that 
beauracracy seems to put a stranglehold on the embedded industry. Kinda funny 
as folks like TiVo seem to roll their own system rather than go with any of 
the popular vendors...and I'm starting to see why.
</vent>

I have fltk, libwww, microwin (not sure if I need nano-x also, but my 
impression is that the version running on x is the nano-x version...I might 
need to config and compile it again, but it built), and I just need imlib I 
think as the last dependancy.

Let me know if you're coming out for LinuxWorld next week Chris, I'll 
certainly buy 'ya a drink!

-- 

Alan DuBoff
Software Orchestration, Inc.
GPG: 1024D/B7A9EBEE 5E00 57CD 5336 5E0B 288B 4126 0D49 0D99 B7A9 EBEE


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