[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Joukj]

Andreas Gruhl wrote:
> 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

All the sources are on "old" sites of HP. So i'm not sure if they are 
present there. Anyway I have copies, but I have no idea if we can 
distribute them.

            Jouk