Re: Success with Links browser port build.

At Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:20:44 +0000 (UTC), Chase Rayfield <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: Success with Links browser port build.
>
> >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way out of date.
>
> Might be due to it still depending on FLTK 1.3 but I guess it is
> usually statically linked anyway so not a big deal.

Ah ha!  I had though FLTK could probably could be static-linked, but by
default it has the "opengl" option enabled, and that then means it
requires MesaLib, which is built with meson, and for the life of me I
cannot figure out how to get meson to generate static libraries for
MesaLib as even when meson is when given "--default-library both", Meson
only builds shared libs!

However dillo doesn't end up using libfltk_gl (which is the only part
that uses MesaLib) so I've forced it to be static-linked and it works!

$ file /usr/pkg/bin/dillo
/usr/pkg/bin/dillo: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, for NetBSD 9.99.81, with debug_info, not stripped
$ size /usr/pkg/bin/dillo
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4583254   40332 2238505 6862091  68b50b /usr/pkg/bin/dillo

That's way smaller than links-gui!

$ size /usr/pkg/bin/links
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
10711721         181212 2421393 13314326         cb2916 /usr/pkg/bin/links

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