[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Joukj]

Andreas Gruhl wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 um 02:22:04 UTC+1:
>> On 12/12/2022 8:13 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
>>> On 12/12/2022 8:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote: 
>>>> However, I wonder what would be involved in getting Dillo to build on 
>>>> VMS: 
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillo 
>>> The two main potential problems must be compiler version support 
>>> (especially C++) and X11 version support. 
>>>
>>> The first will be solved when CLang becomes available on 
>>> VMS x86-64. 
>>>
>>> We will not know the actual problems until someone 
>>> actually tries building it.
>> If one could live with very old HTML standards, then 
>> the easiest graphical browser to get to build would 
>> probably be VMS Mosaic. It builds with VMS C and I would 
>> expect it to build on (currently: for) VMS x86-64. 
>>
>> But it is 25 years old - older than VMS NetScape. There must 
>> be a lot of missing features in 2022. 
> Well, we could live with very old standards. We need no fancy stuff at all.
> If we just could find the source for one of the last browser versions compiled for Itanium we would dive into it and see what's coming out on X86.
> That would be far better than having nothing at all.

Some info is at (I did not test the compilation) at
 
https://openvms-opensource.blogspot.com/2019/03/secure-web-browser-source.html

 From the same location as the CSWB sources I could download in the past 
the sources of the firefox port for itanium.

                 Jouk