-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quick Build Steps for NetSurf 24 February 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document provides steps for building NetSurf. Grab a temporary env.sh -------------------------- $ wget http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/plain/Docs/env.sh $ 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 ---------------------------------------------- $ 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 --------------------------------- $ 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 TARGET_ABI to the appropriate triplet for your cross compiler. For example, to cross compile for RISC OS: $ TARGET_ABI=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 Debian systems are often 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.