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+ Build Instructions for Windows NetSurf 13 February 2010
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ This document provides instructions for building the Windows version
+ of NetSurf and provides guidance on obtaining NetSurf's build
+ dependencies.
+
+ Windows NetSurf has been tested on Wine and Vista.
+
+
+ Building and executing NetSurf
+================================
+
+ The windows netsurf port uses the MinGW (Minimal GNU on Windows)
+ system as its build infrastructure. This allows the normal netsurf
+ build process to be used.
+
+ The method outlined here to create executables cross compiles
+ windows executable from a Linux OS host.
+
+ First of all, you should examine the contents of Makefile.defaults
+ and enable and disable relevant features as you see fit by creating
+ a Makefile.config file. 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 dependencies, or set them to NO.
+
+ You should then obtain NetSurf's dependencies, keeping in mind which
+ options you have enabled in the configuration file. See the next
+ section for specifics.
+
+ Once done, to build windows NetSurf on a UNIX-like platform, simply run:
+
+ $ export MINGW_PREFIX=i586-mingw32msvc-
+ $ export MINGW_INSTALL_ENV=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/
+ $ make TARGET=windows
+
+ 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 a Makefile.config
+ file. You may need to "make clean" before attempting to build after
+ installing the dependencies.
+
+ You will need the libgnurx-0.dll from /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/
+ copied next to the exe and the windows/res directory available, also
+ next to the executable.
+
+ Run NetSurf by executing it:
+
+ $ wine NetSurf.exe
+
+ The staticaly linked binary which is generated may be several
+ megabytes in size, this can be reduced by stripping the binary.
+
+ $ i586-mingw32msvc-strip NetSurf.exe
+
+
+ Obtaining NetSurf's build dependencies
+========================================
+
+ Package installation
+----------------------
+
+ Debian-based OS:
+
+ The mingw cross compilation tools are required. These can be
+ installed as pakages on Debian/Ubuntu systems:
+
+ $ sudo apt-get install mingw32 mingw32-binutils mingw32-runtime
+
+ These provide a suitable set of compilers and headers including the win32 API.
+
+ The includes and associated libraries are installed in
+ /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/ Which is where the build system will include
+ files from by default. The packages at time of writing only target
+ 32bit windows builds.
+
+ Other:
+
+ For other OS the apropriate packages and environment must be installed.
+
+ pkg-config
+------------
+
+ A pkg-config wrapper script is required to make things easier
+
+cat > /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/pkg-config <<EOF
+#!/bin/bash
+export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/lib/pkgconfig
+/usr/bin/pkg-config $*
+EOF
+
+
+ Base libraries
+----------------
+
+ Unlike other OS the base libraries and their dependancies need to be
+ built and installed.
+
+ The instructions given here assume you will be installing on a
+ Debian derived OS using the mingw32 packages. The libraries should
+ be unpacked and built from a suitable temporary directory.
+
+ zlib:
+
+ $ apt-get source zlib1g
+ $ cd zlib-1.2.3.3.dfsg
+ $ CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc AR=i586-mingw32msvc-ar RANLIB=i586-mingw32msvc-ranlib CFLAGS="-DNO_FSEEKO" ./configure --prefix=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/
+ $ make
+ $ sudo make install
+
+ libiconv:
+
+ $ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz
+ $ tar -zxf libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz
+ $ cd libiconv-1.13.1
+ $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/ --host=i586-mingw32msvc --disable-shared
+ $ make
+ $ sudo make install
+
+ regex:
+
+ $ wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Other/UserContributed/regex/mingw-regex-2.5.1/mingw-libgnurx-2.5.1-src.tar.gz
+ $ tar -zxf mingw-libgnurx-2.5.1-src.tar.gz
+ $ cd mingw-libgnurx-2.5.1
+ $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/ --host=i586-mingw32msvc
+ $ make
+ $ sudo make install
+
+ openssl:
+
+ $ wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.0a.tar.gz
+ $ tar -zxf openssl-1.0.0a.tar.gz
+ $ cd openssl-1.0.0a
+ $ PATH=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/:$PATH ./Configure no-shared disable-capieng --prefix=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/ mingw
+ $ PATH=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/:$PATH make CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc RANLIB=i586-mingw32msvc-ranlib
+ $ sudo make install
+
+ libcurl:
+
+ $ wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.26.0.tar.gz
+ $ tar -zxf curl-7.26.0.tar.gz
+ $ cd curl-7.26.0
+ $ LDFLAGS=-mwindows ./configure --prefix=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/ --host=i586-mingw32msvc --disable-shared --disable-ldap --without-random
+ $ make
+ $ sudo make install
+
+ libpng:
+
+ $ wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng14/1.4.12/libpng-1.4.12.tar.gz
+ $ tar -zxf libpng-1.4.12.tar.gz
+ $ cd libpng-1.4.12
+ $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/ --host=i586-mingw32msvc
+ $ make
+ $ sudo make install
+
+ libjpeg:
+
+ $ wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8d.tar.gz
+ $ tar -zxf jpegsrc.v8d.tar.gz
+ $ cd jpeg-8d
+ $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/ --host=i586-mingw32msvc --disable-shared
+ $ make
+ $ sudo make install
+
+ 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.
+
+ To build and install these libraries.
+
+ Ensure the MINGW_INSTALL_ENV variable is correctly set.
+
+ $ export MINGW_INSTALL_ENV=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/
+
+ Then simply enter each of their directories and run:
+
+ $ make TARGET=windows PREFIX=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/
+ $ sudo make TARGET=windows PREFIX=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/ install
+
+ Resources
+-----------
+
+ The windows resources may be rebuilt. Currently there is 1 object
+ file included in the Git distribution of NetSurf that could be
+ manually compiled
+
+ $ cd windows/res
+ $ i586-mingw32msvc-windres resource.rc -O coff -o resource.o