Porting NetSurf browser to the Pyra ?

[Magic Sam]

Hi all

Remember @ptitSeb 's NetSurf port to the Pandora ?

NetSurf - Package Details - repo.openpandora.org Repository of Software for the Open Pandora open source console - Games | Apps | Emulators

Repository of Software for the Open Pandora open source console. Upload, Download, Comment, Rate.

repo.openpandora.org

Well, that browser runs well on the Pyra too

I just followed that procedure:

https://source.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/plain/docs/quick-start.md

The "ns-pull-install" part failed with an error related to some "cast-align" thing, so I ran:

export CFLAGS="-Wno-error=cast-align $CFLAGS"

...and then that part completed successfully

I decided to give the GTK 3 frontend a try, so I installed the required development files:

# apt-get install gtk-3-dev

And "make" built a lovely "nsgtk3" binary which starts much faster than Firefox

If somebody knowledgeable about DBPs could make a package for the Pyra that would be really appreciated !

Cheers, Magic Sam

P.S: NetSurf is part of Debian 11 "Bullseye" (but unfortunately not Debian 10 "Buster"):

Debian -- Details of package netsurf-gtk in bullseye

 

[levi]

Nice. I'll note that netsurf 3.10 is still the stable release of netsurf, so you've got what is effectively a nightly build. Fair enough if that's what you were going for.

 

[Magic Sam]

Hi all,

@levi : yes, that was the expected outcome The latest stable release (3.10) would certainly be a better fit for a Pyra package though.

Cheers, Magic Sam