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<h1>Building NetSurf on RISC OS</h1>

<p>This document outlines the process required to get a build system for NetSurf set up on a RISC OS machine.</p>

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<li><a href="#Requirements">Requirements</a></li>
<li><a href="#GettingStarted">Getting started</a></li>
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<p class="updated">Last updated 10 August 2009</p>

<h2 id="Requirements">Requirements</h2>

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<li>A Filing System which supports long filenames</li>
<li>GCC 3.4.6 release 3 or later (<a href="http://gccsdk.riscos.info/">http://gccsdk.riscos.info/</a>)</li>
<li>OSLib 6.80 or later (<a href="http://ro-oslib.sourceforge.net/">http://ro-oslib.sourceforge.net/</a>)</li>
<li>Perl 5.8.8 or later (<a href="http://www.cp15.org/programming/">http://www.cp15.org/programming/</a>)</li>
<li>RISC OS SVN client (<a href="http://www.cp15.org/versioncontrol/">http://www.cp15.org/versioncontrol/</a>)</li>
<li>NSTools (<a href="http://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/other/nstools.zip">http://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/other/nstools.zip</a>)</li>
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<h2 id="GettingStarted">Getting started</h2>

<p>This section details quick-start instructions for getting NetSurf compiled under RISC OS. If you want more detail, see the rest of this document.</p>

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<li>Download and install the <a href="#Requirements">requirements</a> listed above.</li>
<li>Force the RISC OS SVN client to handle ,xxx extensions correctly by issuing:
<pre>*Set svn$filetypeext &quot;&quot;</pre>
This may be set permanently by uncommenting the appropriate line in !SVN's !Boot file.</li>
<li>Check out the latest source code from SVN, by issuing the following command in a TaskWindow:
<pre>*svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/netsurf</pre></li>
<li>Open the &quot;netsurf&quot; directory that gets created, this now contains all the source code.</li>
<li>Read the &quot;BUILDING-RISC_OS&quot; document in the &quot;Docs&quot; directory. This explains how to actually get NetSurf to build.</li>
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