[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Andreas Gruhl]

Joukj schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 um 12:47:42 UTC+1:
> 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

Thank you for the link. I missed it. I have some difficulties in accessing the sources but we will give it further tries.
Andreas