On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 03:08:42PM -0500, David Dombrowsky
wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 02:35:01PM -0500, David
Dombrowsky wrote:
Hi there,
> > So far the only easily compilable web browser I
can find for the
> > cygwin platform is dillo. It compiles and starts
up just fine,
> > but any time it has to use the dpid daemon, it
dies. The source
> > of the error has something to do with the socket
handling in the
> > source for dpid.
> I take it dillo doesn't support cygwin-X ?
http://www.hyperborea.org/software/dillo/cygwin.html
appears to agree
with you. Works apart from dpis, apparently. Which may be
enough for you,
if you just remove or disable the dpi-calling parts and
limit it to be
a http-speaking html-and-some-images browser.
Googling for cygwin and sockets (or "unix domain
socket") seems to
suggest that the general difficulty is a known one.
I suspect that good-quality patches for a full fix would be
welcomed,
but also suspect they may be hard to create.
> > Does anyone have any experience building dillo on
native cygwin (cygwin-X)?
> > Also, what about the fltk2 toolkit? I can't get
that to build in cygwin
> > either.
Google points towards http://www.gidfo
rums.com/t-3882.html which is some
people having trouble 18 months ago,
Searching for cygwin on www.fltk.org gives one small mention
last July of
something in the fltk2 sources. Nothing big and obvious
like "of course
it works".
> > I know that's another project, but dillo directly
depends on
> > it.
Right now it's only an optional part, which might make your
porting/hacking job a bit easier on the current version.
But the intention
is that it will depend on it in the future, yes.
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated. One of my
desktops is
> > empty and I need to put a browser there.
Not the best answer, I know, but I can chmod -x dpid, dpidc
and all the
.dpi programs and still have a functional browser.
Presumably a small
local web server would allow me access a
"bookmarks" page if I wanted
one, perhaps at the "home" icon rather than the
"bookmark" icon. And
that's with no dillo code changes at all.
If I planned on using it much, I'd patch to disable
everything dpi-ish
and remove some icons and menu entries, in order to avoid me
being
misled. Probably the only real change would be to convince
dillo that it
can download-and-save any content itself, even if it
doesn't recognise
the mime type. (I'm not even sure that'd be necessary, in
fact.)
I presume the "copy link location" facility
works under cygwin? Paste to
curl or wget for downloads, and paste into a wiki on your
local server
for bookmarks.
That might be an interesting exercise, if you want to keep
"lightweight".
Or try "link2 -g" and see if that fares any
better.
Good luck,
f
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Francis Daly francis daoine.org
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