11:17 a.m.
Hi,
I'm a long time Macintosh developer and am involved in the Classic
Mac online scene. I just found about about Netsurf and was wondering
if it would be possible to port it to the old Macintosh OS9
environment and bring a modern, web standards compliant browser to
people using classic macs.
I need to know if it would be possible to compile Netsurf under the
older dev tools available for OS9 and where to start. I have
CodeWarrior 7 and the old Macintosh Developers Workshop.
Thanks,
Jay
1:37 p.m.
On Saturday 25 April 2009, James Hill wrote:
I'm a long time Macintosh developer and am involved in the
Classic
Mac online scene. I just found about about Netsurf and was wondering
if it would be possible to port it to the old Macintosh OS9
environment and bring a modern, web standards compliant browser to
people using classic macs.
I need to know if it would be possible to compile Netsurf under the
older dev tools available for OS9 and where to start. I have
CodeWarrior 7 and the old Macintosh Developers Workshop.
Hi Jay,
NetSurf is very portable and I think this is very likely possible. The code is
mostly ANSI C with use of some common POSIX functions such as regex and iconv.
The essential dependencies are libcurl, libxml, and hubbub (part of the
project). You'll also need libjpeg, libpng or libmng, and libnsgif, but those
can be disabled to start with.
Creating a new user interface involves implementing about 50 functions - see
desktop/gui.h. You'll need to look at the existing ports code to see what they
should do.
You can check the source out using the command on
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/documentation/develop
or check out svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk to get all the related
libraries too.
James
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James Bursa, NetSurf developer http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
2:12 p.m.
> I'm a long time Macintosh developer and am involved in the
Classic
> Mac online scene. I just found about about Netsurf and was
> wondering
> if it would be possible to port it to the old Macintosh OS9
> environment and bring a modern, web standards compliant browser to
> people using classic macs.
Wow, it would be funny :)
I happen to have a mac clone around, and a PCI based mac with OS9
IIRC...
Mostly for testing the Haiku ppc port, but I could probably help
testing it.
Btw, do you intend to look at a possible 68k port too ?
I have a Mac LC III here and it would be really funky to see NetSurf on
it...
(I started a 68k port of Haiku too, so...)
> I need to know if it would be possible to compile Netsurf under
the
> older dev tools available for OS9 and where to start. I have
> CodeWarrior 7 and the old Macintosh Developers Workshop.
Isn't there any cross-compiler available ?
I suppose one could build a cross gcc for powerpc-apple-os9 and use the
libraries and headers from the sdk...
Seems gcc4 and binutils don't have this target...
grep apple gcc/conf*
gcc/config.guess: echo m68k-apple-machten${UNAME_RELEASE}
gcc/config.guess: echo powerpc-apple-machten${UNAME_RELEASE}
gcc/config.guess: echo m68k-apple-aux${UNAME_RELEASE}
gcc/config.guess: echo powerpc-apple-beos
gcc/config.guess: echo powerpc-apple-rhapsody${UNAME_RELEASE}
gcc/config.guess: echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-apple-
rhapsody${UNAME_RELEASE}
gcc/config.guess: echo ${UNAME_PROCESSOR}-apple-
darwin${UNAME_RELEASE}
... oh wait:
grep macos gcc/conf*
gcc/config.sub: | -macos* | -mpw* | -magic* | -mmixware* | -
mon960* | -lnews*)
gcc/config.sub: os=`echo $os | sed -e 's|mac|macos|'`
gcc/config.sub: os=-macos
gcc/config.sub: -mpw* | -macos*)
Are those macos ...9 or X ?
seems OS9.
Try to google something like "powerpc-apple-macos cross gcc"
NetSurf is very portable and I think this is very likely possible.
The code is
mostly ANSI C with use of some common POSIX functions such as regex
and iconv.
Also, since the BeOS port requires using gcc2, I had to fix many C99
stuff to be C89 compliant, and as I suppose the OS9 dev kits likely
don't know about C99 it should probably be useful for you too.
(I still have a pending fix for libtinysvg though.)
The essential dependencies are libcurl, libxml, and hubbub (part of
the
project). You'll also need libjpeg, libpng or libmng, and libnsgif,
but those
can be disabled to start with.
You will also need some build tools like re2c and lemon.
lemon built fine in BeOS, so should be portable.
re2c requires gcc4 (and C++), but yasm has its own version rewritten as
plain C, which built without a hitch in BeOS, so you can probably use
it.
I also heard dependancy on those 2 might disapear some day.
Creating a new user interface involves implementing about 50
functions - see
desktop/gui.h. You'll need to look at the existing ports code to see
what
they
should do.
Since we also have a framebuffer version now you can probably try
cloning it first to fix porting the core part and use a single window
(or maybe SDL, is there SDL for OS9 ?)
François.
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