Open klange opened 1 year ago
Curl builds with minor patches. Some changes to our libc were implemented to support it, but it also needs a couple of kludges to disable calls to select
that were not guarded behind HAVE_SELECT
, as well as disabling some uses of getaddrinfo
that were not allowing failure.
Additionally, some changes to the configure
script were necessary to support shared library builds, which are now functioning.
I will formulate patches for these changes and prepare Curl for packaging. My next focus will be on zlib, libpng, and freetype.
ToaruOS once had a port of Netsurf, circa 2016. We should bring that back.
Netsurf has some dependencies which don't exist in the current port catalog:
toaru_inflate
.toaru_png
; I'd rather not rewrite things to use our libraries, so just porting these is worthwhile.During the last port of Netsurf, we did not have a BSD sockets layer and the Curl port was largely stubbed, so I'm not sure we were ever even able to load web pages, just local files on disk. I expect things will go a bit better this time around.
The framebuffer backend for Netsurf supports SDL, and the first pass at porting Netsurf should use it. A future improvement might be to write a native Yutani frontend - possibly one that makes use of our menu and button libraries.