[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Andreas Gruhl]

Joukj schrieb am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2022 um 08:54:04 UTC+1:
> 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
Your assumption seems true. None of the links that I found is still alive.
Would be great, if you could help me.
Getting Mosaic running on X86 wasn't difficult. But it is slightly too old...
Andreas