Quick Build Steps for NetSurf ============================= Last Updated: 15th December 2017 This document provides steps for building NetSurf. Native build ============ Grab a temporary env.sh ----------------------- $ wget http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/plain/docs/env.sh $ unset HOST $ source env.sh Install any packages you need ----------------------------- Installs all packages required to build NetSurf and the NetSurf project libraries. $ ns-package-install If your package manager is not supported, you will have to install third party packages manually. Get the NetSurf project source code from Git -------------------------------------------- All the sources for the browser and support libraries is available from the public git server. Local copies may be easily obtained with the ns-clone command. $ ns-clone Build and install our project libraries --------------------------------------- Updates NetSurf project library sources to latest, builds and installs them. $ ns-pull-install Switch to new NetSurf workspace ------------------------------- Remove the bootstrap script and use the newly installed one $ rm env.sh $ cd ~/dev-netsurf/workspace $ source env.sh Build and run NetSurf --------------------- $ cd netsurf To build the native front end (the GTK front end on Linux, BSDs, etc) you could do: $ make $ ./nsgtk To build the framebuffer front end, you could do: $ make TARGET=framebuffer $ ./nsfb Cross Compiling =============== If you are cross compiling, you can follow the above steps, but when sourcing env.sh, you should set HOST environment variable to the appropriate triplet for your cross compiler. For example, to cross compile for RISC OS: $ HOST=arm-unknown-riscos source env.sh After that, the commands such as `ns-package-install` and `ns-pull-install` will do what is appropriate for the platform you are building for. To do the final build of NetSurf, pass the appropriate TARGET to make. For example, to cross compile for RISC OS: $ make TARGET=riscos Finally, you can package up your build to transfer to the system you are developing for. For example, to produce a package for RISC OS: $ make TARGET=riscos package Getting a cross compiler set up ------------------------------- We maintain cross compilation environments and an SDK for a number of platforms. These may be found in our toolchains repository. $ git clone git://git.netsurf-browser.org/toolchains Pre-built versions of the toolchains for 64bit x86 Debian systems are available via our [automated build and test infrastructure](http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/toolchains/) Not working? ============ If the above steps are inapplicable, or don't work, you can build manually. Follow the instructions in the BUILDING-* documents in the docs/ directory the NetSurf browser source tree.