You could also look how we handled Firefox in OpenEmbedded. Other option can be gpe-mini-browser which base on GTK-Webcore (also in OpenEmbedded). Both use gtk2 because we try to avoid gtk1 at all.
Dillo is too simple to use it for sites which use lot of CSS and/or Javascript.
BTW - cannot OpenBSD use cross-compilers? Building stuff on Zaurus reminds me building kernel on Amiga with 68040/40 - 3h (when cross-compiled on pII/400 it was ~20 minutes).
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Thanks HRW, the main reason for this is Javascript support yes.
OpenBSD can and does use cross compilers if you want to build OpenBSD alone, the whole base system can be built like that but it is recommended to use native compilation once the first iterations have been built.
The ports tree (the automated build from source system for the non distro applications... covers everything not in base OpenBSD or XOrg) on the other hand isn't enabled for cross compilation and never will be. The view they take is that it is all messy code that they don't have any control over and aren't going to spend time nailing it to work for cross compilation on all the architectures they support - and quite right too really
The upside is that in most cases the ports system works exactly like it does on any other architecture. Take a look at the ports make system some time, it is clean, uncluttered and pretty elegant. It even lets you go into a patch snapshot mode, make changes to a port, close the snapshot and then (assuming you have cvs write access) cvs the diffs back to the central ports cvs. - The complexity of this system would go 'through the roof' and it wouldn't be as maintainable if it were designed for cross compilation across all the different architectures.... these are the architectures they support...
alpha Digital Alpha-based systems
amd64 AMD64-based systems
cats StrongARM 110 Evaluation Board
hp300 Hewlett-Packard HP 9000 series 300 and 400 workstations
hppa Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture (PA-RISC) systems
i386 Standard PC and clones based on the Intel i386 architecture and compatible processors
luna88k Omron LUNA-88K and LUNA-88K2 workstations
mac68k Motorola 680x0-based Apple Macintosh with MMU
macppc Apple New World PowerPC-based machines, from the iMac onwards
mvme68k Motorola 680x0-based VME systems
mvme88k Motorola 881x0-based VME systems
sgi SGI MIPS-based workstations
sparc Sun sun4, sun4c and sun4m class SPARC systems
sparc64 Sun UltraSPARC systems
vax Digital VAX-based systems
zaurus Sharp Zaurus C3x00 PDAs
16 in total.. remove the binary compatible ones and there are is a 12x12 matrix of cross compiler configurations to test... no thanks I wouldn't like to have to maintain that.
gpe-minibrowser does sound interesting.. I may take a look at that, thanks.
- Andy
