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author | Vincent Sanders <vince@kyllikki.org> | 2017-09-07 09:16:25 +0100 |
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committer | Vincent Sanders <vince@kyllikki.org> | 2017-09-07 09:16:25 +0100 |
commit | f37d15f16a67b2449fb7a22f394e72394c64740c (patch) | |
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add basic readme for the all source package
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@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +NetSurf source -- Web Browser and all associated support libraries +================================================================== + +Overview +-------- + + NetSurf is a compact graphical web browser which aims for HTML5, CSS + and JavaScript support. + + This complete source package contains all the required NetSurf + support libraries to build the browser. + +Binaries +-------- + + The NetSurf project provide binary builds for releases for several + platforms form the website and have packaged the browser in several + distributions. This option may be more suitable for some users than + compiling from source. + +Compilation +----------- + + A simple "make" is sufficient to compile the browser with the + default gtk toolkit selection. + + It depends upon the host system having a suitable toolchain for + compiling c programs installed along with GNU make, zlib, flex, + bison and lipjpeg + + In addition to the core library dependencies it is strongly + recommended libcurl, openssl and libpng libraries are present or the + browser will not have HTTP fetches, HTTPS fetches and PNG graphics + support respectively. + + There are multiple GUI toolkits available which all have additional + dependencies i.e. gtk browser frontend requires the gtk development + libraries. |