Is there any successful use of Netsurf on mobile phone?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Rob Kendrick<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:31:24 +0000 (GMT)
> JULIAN GARDNER <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all, just found the browser and was wondering if anybody had
>> ported this to something other than gcc based?
>>
>> im looking at building this on an arm11 or arc
>
> We routinely use NetSurf on embedded targets. We even ported it to
> our boot loader, which runs on ARM7500s, StrongARMs and various ARM9
> parts. However, we also use GCC, because despite its price, we've
> found it the best compiler for the job. I'm yet to get it going on a
> Cortex M3 device, though :)
>
> NetSurf used to contain quite a few C99isms, basically mandating either
> GCC or something based on the EDG front end, however most of these have
> been removed. If it doesn't build with the compiler of your choice,
> it's either because we've not fixed all those C99isms (apart from a
> few, very obvious, very easy to fix places), or because your compiler is
> buggy.
>
>
> B.
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