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  Build Instructions for Windows NetSurf                      13 February 2010

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  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

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  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 <

#!/bin/bash

export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/lib/pkgconfig

/usr/bin/pkg-config $*

EOF

  Base libraries

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  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

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  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