Re: Success with Links browser port build.

чт, 11 дек. 2025 г., 23:02 Greg A. Woods <[email protected]>:

> At Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:04:03 +0100, Riccardo Mottola <
> [email protected]> 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 way out of date.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.
>


Dependency Hell! (low cpu edition)

I wonder if anyone tried this distcc + NetBSD cross tools setup?

https://hackaday.io/project/218-speed-up-pkgsrc-on-retrocomputers/details

Due to lack of hdd space I had another idea, using two qemu-system-sparc
instances on same x86 host.

I have two copies of NetBSD/sparc virtual hdd image for qemu (because I
never figured complex launching args for snapshot use), and in theory this
might work with qemu's port redirection:

 https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/QEMU#QEMU's_port_forwarding

But may be I'll spin up cross tools on  currently powered down laptop.

Even 2x speed up look promising  (esp. if autoswc will work nicely with
this setup), but for some reason I am reluctant to launch whole setup .....




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