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Build Instructions for GTK NetSurf 26 July 2008
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This document provides instructions for building the GTK version of NetSurf
and provides guidance on obtaining NetSurf's build dependencies.
GTK NetSurf has been tested on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora 8, FreeBSD, NetBSD and
Solaris 10.
Building and executing NetSurf
=================================
First of all, you should examine the contents of Makefile.config and enable
and disable relevant features as you see fit. Some of these options can be
automatically detected and used, and where this is the case they are set to
such. Others cannot be automatically detected from the Makefile, so you will
either need to install the dependancies, or set them to NO.
Once done, to build GTK NetSurf on a UNIX-like platform, simply run:
$ make
If that produces errors, you probably don't have some of NetSurf's build
dependencies installed. See "Obtaining NetSurf's dependencies" below. Or turn
off the complaining features in Makefile.config. You may need to "make clean"
before attempting to build after installing the dependencies.
Run NetSurf by executing the "netsurf" shell script:
$ ./netsurf
This script makes it easy to run the nsgtk binary from the build tree. It
sets up some environment variables which enable NetSurf to find its
resources.
If you are packaging NetSurf, see the PACKAGING-GTK document.
Obtaining NetSurf's dependencies
==================================
Many of NetSurf's dependencies are packaged on various operating systems.
The remainder must be installed manually.
Package installation
----------------------
Debian-like OS:
$ apt-get install libglade2-dev libcurl3-dev libxml2-dev libmng-dev
$ apt-get install librsvg2-dev lemon re2c
Fedora:
$ yum install libglade2-devel curl-devel libxml2-devel libmng-devel
$ yum install librsvg2-devel lcms-devel re2c
Librosprite
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NetSurf uses James Shaw's librosprite for rendering RISC OS Sprite files on
non-RISC OS platforms. The Makefile will automatically use it if it can find
it. You can disable it entirely by editing Makefile.config.
To build librosprite, check out from svn://svn.rjek.com/jshaw/libsprite/trunk
Build and install it:
$ sudo make install
Optionally, specify an install prefix:
$ PREFIX=/path/to/install make install
Libhpdf
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NetSurf can use Haru PDF to enable PDF export and printing in GTK. This
is currently enabled by default, and cannot be auto-detected by the Makefile.
If you wish to disable it, do so by editing Makefile.config.
Haru PDF can be obtained from http://libharu.sourceforge.net/, although we
currently depend on features that the official version does not have. You
can obtain our patched version from the following Subversion address until
the patches are accepted upstream;
svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/branches/adamblokus/libharu/adamblokus
Lemon
-------
If your distribution does not package 'lemon' (Fedora doesn't) then you'll
need to download it and build it yourself. You may find it comes with the
SQLite packages (SQLite's parser is built with lemon). If not, try this:
$ mkdir -p /usr/local/share/lemon
$ wget http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/getfile/sqlite/tool/lemon.c
$ wget -O /usr/local/share/lemon/lempar.c http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/getfile/sqlite/tool/lempar.c
$ sed -e's!lempar.c!/usr/local/share/lemon/lempar.c!' lemon.c > lem.c
$ gcc -o /usr/local/bin/lemon lem.c
General requirements
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NetSurf requires at minimum GTK 2.10. Earlier versions will not work. It also
depends on Cairo for rendering, but you should have this already with
versions of GTK 2.10 or later.
This will pull in loads of things, like all the GTK dev libraries, the PNG
and JPEG libraries, colour management libraries, zlib, OpenSSL etc that
NetSurf also depends on.