Building edbrowse on Debian

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis]

Did you rely in the wrong thread? Edbrowse needs the SpiderMonkey
JavaScript interpreter. It doesn't need Java at all AFAIK.

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

On 7/29/07, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at shellworld.net> wrote:
> gcj if it's installed on debian won't work.  What may start working and
> get you the rest of the way home is installing all of the java stuff from
> sun.  you'll need the sdk and rtk and I suspect java access bridge for
> linux too at a minimum.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> > I thought for a while I might get edbrowse-3.2.1 to build since
> > the README file mentions Debian, but I think we are running in
> > to the thing I call the orphan syndrome. So much stuff has
> > changed since the code was written that it is hard to find what
> > you need to safely build it.
> >
> > On my Debian system, I needed to install libpcre-ocaml-dev
> > to get libpcre-development functionality. You can't really find
> > a libpcre package as such, but the one I did install quieted
> > things down and solved the first missing library problem. Then,
> > I hit the wall.
> >
> > jsdom.c:13:19: jsapi.h: No such file or directory
> >
> >       It gets a lot worse from there.
> >
> >       I did manage to get the Mozzilla javascript library
> > mentioned in the edbrowse README file. The link to it is no good
> > any longer, but a google search turned up the fact that it is
> > still on the Mozzilla site but in a different directory.
> >
> >       I got it and followed the directions in README which read:
> >
> >> Expand this in /usr/local.
> >> It will create a directory js.
> >> Go into js/src and run
> >> gmake -f Makefile.ref
> >
> > Another buzzer! gmake doesn't exist so I just tried make.
> >
> >> This should build everything you need.
> >
> >       Well, it kind of looked okay in that there were no
> > errors.
> >
> >> cd Linux_All_DBG.OBJ
> >> ln -s `pwd`/libjs.so /usr/lib/libsmjs.so
> >
> > that's where I chickened out because there is already a file by
> > that mane. I had installed spidermonkey which is a Debian
> > package when building elinks so it is really there already and I
> > think that edbrowse found it since the first errors seem to be
> > related to things that aren't as they should be according to
> > what edbrowse is expecting. If I change the link, this will
> > more than likely break elinks next time it runs.
> >
> >
> >       Anyway, that's the health of edbrowse at this location.
> > It looks like a pretty neat thing if it can build.
> >
> > Martin McCormick
> >
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