[oi-dev] Porting of the Epiphany Browser

Till Wegmueller toasterson at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 16:38:52 UTC 2021


Everyone starts like that.

The docs are designed to be read and used even by non developers. The 
point of this is to have more developers. The only way to have more 
developers and contributors, is to offer resources for training. By 
being able to compile software you are already quite far ahead on the 
journey to be a contributor. If you would contribute the software in the 
packages defined that is already a good step. If you are willing to 
maintain the things you use for yourself also for others that is the 
best way to begin contributing.

You are allowed to try and train here.

-Till

On 09.01.21 13:12, Hung Nguyen Gia wrote:
> Maybe you are misunderstood. I'm not that powerful to be able to be a developer. All of what I did as I described is I trying to build this browser on OI. Porting is the wrong word. My bad. It's such a too big word to be used. I'm currently stuck at libdazzle, a dependency of Epiphany. It seemed the problem is with a compiler flag is wrongly defined. It will fail to build with this flag on. But I have no knowledge with the Meson build system they are using, so I posted here asking anyone interested or have time please have a look at it.
> 
> This browser is fairly portable (at least it's what I think), so if we could get this libdazzle it's very likely we would get the browser, too.
> 
> 
> ---- On Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:10:53 +0700 Till Wegmueller <toasterson at gmail.com> wrote ----
> 
>   > Hi
>   >
>   > Thanks for the initiative. Will you stay around longer and package some
>   > softwares?
>   >
>   > Have you had a look into http://docs.openindiana.org/dev/userland/ It
>   > gives you instructions on how to properly build and package components
>   > for OI. If you get stuck on something we can have a look at your logs
>   > and console output, and help pointing you to the right direction, but we
>   > won't run a second build setup on our side.
>   >
>   > BTW. also have a look into solaris-userland
>   > https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland and
>   > https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc-joyent if there is any patches needed
>   > for the sources to compile.
>   >
>   > -Till
>   >
>   > On 09.01.21 05:15, Hung Nguyen Gia via oi-dev wrote:
>   > > In no way I'm a professional developer. I just pulled the source of it from github and tried to compile it by following the instructions.
>   > >
>   > > https://github.com/GNOME/epiphany
>   > >
>   > > Currently, I'm stuck at libdazzle. I will not compile under OI.
>   > >
>   > > https://github.com/GNOME/libdazzle
>   > >
>   > > Any helps would be appreciated. Thanks.
>   > >
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