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Build Instructions for Cocoa NetSurf 13 January 2011
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This document provides instructions for building the Cocoa version of NetSurf
and provides guidance on obtaining NetSurf's build dependencies.
Cocoa NetSurf has been tested on Mac OS X 10.6 on Intel and on Mac OS X 10.5
on ppc.
Building NetSurf
==================
After installing the dependencies NetSurf can be built either using the Xcode
project file 'cocoa/NetSurf.xcodeproj' or on the command line using the
Makefile:
$ make TARGET=cocoa
In both cases the actual build process is controlled by the Makefile.
Obtaining NetSurf's build dependencies
========================================
Many of NetSurf's dependencies are packaged on various operating systems.
The remainder must be installed manually. Currently, some of the libraries
developed as part of the NetSurf project have not had official releases.
Hopefully they will soon be released with downloadable tarballs and packaged
in common distros. For now, you'll have to make do with Git checkouts.
Package installation
----------------------
For building the other NetSurf libraries and for configuring NetSurf the
"pkg-config" tool is required. It can be installed either via fink, macports
or homebrew or from source.
OpenSSL, LibPNG, curl, iconv and zlib are provided by Mac OS X.
The curl library provided by Mac OS X 10.6 causes a crash while fetching
https resources, so you should install version 7.21.4 (or newer) of libcurl
if you are running on 10.6.
LibJPEG and LibMNG can be installed from source or using one of the mentioned
package managers.
The NetSurf project's libraries
---------------------------------
The NetSurf project has developed several libraries which are required by
the browser. These are:
LibParserUtils -- Parser building utility functions
LibWapcaplet -- String internment
Hubbub -- HTML5 compliant HTML parser
LibCSS -- CSS parser and selection engine
LibNSGIF -- GIF format image decoder
LibNSBMP -- BMP and ICO format image decoder
LibROSprite -- RISC OS Sprite format image decoder
To fetch each of these libraries, run the appropriate commands from the
Docs/LIBRARIES file.
$ make
$ sudo make install
This command builds the libraries only for the active architecture. To build
universal binaries use those commands:
$ make UNIVERSAL="i386 x86_64 ppc ppc64"
$ sudo make install
If you are building NetSurf for using it on only one computer this is not
necessary, but if you want to distribute your binary you should build
universal binaries. You can also leave some of the platform names out, if
you don't require them.
| Note: We advise enabling iconv() support in libparserutils, which vastly
| increases the number of supported character sets. To do this,
| create a file called Makefile.config.override in the libparserutils
| directory, containing the following line:
|
| CFLAGS += -DWITH_ICONV_FILTER
|
| For more information, consult the libparserutils README file.