Re: [9front] netsurf native frontend (text_insert: illegal combination FCVTZSDW FCON NONE REG)

[Romano <unobe@cpan.org>]

Philippe,

I attempted to build on a rpi4 using the arm64 kernel ( I ran a sysupdate on Saturday). The framebuffer executable builds fine, but at the very last step of building the native front-end I'm getting an error:

pcc -o 7.netsurf utils/bloom.7 utils/corestrings.7 utils/file.7 utils/filename.7 utils/filepath.7 utils/hashmap.7 utils/hashtable.7 utils/http/cache-control.7 utils/http/challenge.7 utils/http/content-disposition.7 utils/http/content-type.7 utils/http/generics.7 utils/http/parameter.7 utils/http/primitives.7 utils/http/strict-transport-security.7 utils/http/www-authenticate.7 utils/idna.7 utils/libdom.7 utils/log.7 utils/messages.7 utils/nsoption.7 utils/nsurl/nsurl.7 utils/nsurl/parse.7 utils/punycode.7 utils/ssl_certs.7 utils/talloc.7 utils/time.7 utils/url.7 utils/useragent.7 utils/utf8.7 utils/utils.7 content/content.7 content/content_factory.7 content/dirlist.7 content/fetch.7 content/fetchers/about.7 content/fetchers/data.7 content/fetchers/file.7 content/fetchers/resource.7 content/fs_backing_store.7 content/handlers/css/css.7 content/handlers/css/dump.7 content/handlers/css/hints.7 content/handlers/css/internal.7 content/handlers/css/select.7 content/handlers/css/utils.7 content/handlers/html/box.7 content/handlers/html/box_construct.7 content/handlers/html/box_normalise.7 content/handlers/html/box_textarea.7 content/handlers/html/font.7 content/handlers/html/form.7 content/handlers/html/html.7 content/handlers/html/html_css.7 content/handlers/html/html_css_fetcher.7 content/handlers/html/html_forms.7 content/handlers/html/html_object.7 content/handlers/html/html_redraw.7 content/handlers/html/html_redraw_border.7 content/handlers/html/html_script.7 content/handlers/html/imagemap.7 content/handlers/html/interaction.7 content/handlers/html/layout.7 content/handlers/html/search.7 content/handlers/html/table.7 content/handlers/image/bmp.7 content/handlers/image/gif.7 content/handlers/image/ico.7 content/handlers/image/image.7 content/handlers/image/image_cache.7 content/handlers/javascript/content.7 content/handlers/javascript/duktape/dukky.7 content/handlers/javascript/duktape/duktape.7 content/handlers/javascript/fetcher.7 content/handlers/text/textplain.7 content/hlcache.7 content/llcache.7 content/mimesniff.7 content/no_backing_store.7 content/urldb.7 content/webfs.7 desktop/browser.7 desktop/browser_history.7 desktop/browser_window.7 desktop/cookie_manager.7 desktop/cw_helper.7 desktop/download.7 desktop/font_haru.7 desktop/frames.7 desktop/global_history.7 desktop/gui_factory.7 desktop/hotlist.7 desktop/knockout.7 desktop/local_history.7 desktop/mouse.7 desktop/netsurf.7 desktop/page-info.7 desktop/plot_style.7 desktop/print.7 desktop/save_pdf.7 desktop/save_text.7 desktop/scrollbar.7 desktop/search.7 desktop/searchweb.7 desktop/selection.7 desktop/sslcert_viewer.7 desktop/system_colour.7 desktop/textarea.7 desktop/textinput.7 desktop/treeview.7 desktop/version.7 frontends/plan9/plotter.7 frontends/plan9/schedule.7 frontends/plan9/window.7 frontends/plan9/fetch.7 frontends/plan9/bitmap.7 frontends/plan9/layout.7 frontends/plan9/clipboard.7 frontends/plan9/utils.7 frontends/plan9/gui.7 frontends/plan9/drawui/data.7 frontends/plan9/drawui/window.7 frontends/plan9/drawui/button.7 frontends/plan9/drawui/entry.7 frontends/plan9/drawui/toolbar.7 frontends/plan9/drawui/scrollbar.7 ../posix/src/iconv.7 ../posix/src/preadwrite.7 ../posix/src/math9.7 content/handlers/javascript/duktape/libduktape.7.a ../libnspsl/src/libnspsl.7.a ../libdom/src/libdom.7.a ../libcss/src/libcss.7.a ../libhubbub/src/libhubbub.7.a ../libparserutils/src/libparserutils.7.a ../libwapcaplet/src/libwapcaplet.7.a ../libnsutils/src/libnsutils.7.a ../libnslog/src/libnslog.7.a ../libnsbmp/src/libnsbmp.7.a ../libnsgif/src/libnsgif.7.a ../libutf8proc/src/libutf8proc.7.a
text_insert: illegal combination FCVTZSDW FCON NONE REG
(1705)	FCVTZSDW	$1.500000e+00,R5
text_insert: illegal combination FCVTZSDW FCON NONE REG
(1705)	FCVTZSDW	$1.500000e+00,R5
pcc: 7l: 7l 101895: error
mk: pcc -o 7.netsurf ...  : exit status=rc 101892: pcc 101894: 7l: 7l 101895: error

Any ideas? Is this is a problem with the 7l linker specifically not knowing how to translate an instruction to arm64 assembly? Do you need more information?

On Thu, May 21, 2020, at 10:59 AM, Romano wrote:
> Very cool, Philippe!
> 
> I'm testing a build now on 386.
> 
> Maybe it was mentioned previously and I didn't see it, but it looks 
> like nsport is what someone needs to clone first: 
> http://github.com/netsurf-plan9/nsport . Then cd into that dir and run 
> 'fetch clone git', 'fetch clone ssh' or 'fetch clone http' (the 
> instructions in README.plan9 say a simple 'fetch clone' without args 
> would work, but it didn't work for me).
> 
> Note also that git9 changed the flag for creating a new branch: you 
> might have to update the fetch script to use -n instead of -c.
> 
> I'll let you know how the build goes, and if I run in to any other gotchas.
> 
> 
> 
> On May 21, 2020 3:54:03 PM UTC, telephil9@gmail.com wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've just committed the initial release for the netsurf native
> >frontend.
> >Feature-wise it is almost on par with the framebuffer frontend except
> >for images that are not handled yet.
> >I tried to make it look and behave like a native application but would
> >like to have some feedback on this.
> >
> >All code is in the main repository: http://github.com/netsurf-plan9
> >
> >In order not to mess with the current framebuffer frontend, I created a
> >separate mkfile found in netsurf/mkfile.native.
> >To build this new frontend, just run mk as usual and then run mk -f
> >mkfile.native in the netsurf directory.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Philippe
>