[Linux-il] Web browser on ARM

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

Constantine Shulyupin wrote:

> HI,
>
> I going to cross compile a web browser for ARM (TI DaVinci, MontaVista Linux 4).
>   
Well, an interesting longer term solution will be to use the Android 
stack of course, but being that it's MV4 you're talking about this is 
not the fast path....
> I already unsuccessfully tried to compile WebKit.
> There are a lot of problems of versions and configurations
> incompatibilities among libraries.
>   
Cross compiling sucks and MV4 is using old versions of well... 
everything - but you really need to supply some more details on what you 
tried and what didn't work.

> Have somebody already tried to do that?
>   

Use a build envrionment like buildroot, Ptxdist or Scratchbox.
> Have you any suggestion where to get ready web browser for ARM or
> speed up the cross compilation.
>   
The Nokia 770 is an Arm based Linux device and as it is a web tablet it 
obviously has a browser. They use Scratchbox - so that's a good start.

Good luck,
Gilad


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