From: Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
To: Amir Shehzad Malik <address@hidden>
CC: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Developer Documentation
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:01:41 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Amir Shehzad Malik wrote:
Thanks for your reply.... well yes.. It is to be cross compiled.... Thats
ok but now can you suggest some document to understand the code
organization so I can get going with the code a little faster...
not really. Here's a quick overview. The configure script and makefiles
know about 3 directories:
WWW/Library/Implementation
src
src/chrtrans
The WWW tree was originally the w3c library. That's where the networking
is done, the SGML parsing done. Over in src are the HTML parsing (on top
of the SGML) and the layout onto the screen. src/chrtrans builds the
compiled-in character-set tables used to make approximations to different
types of display. Many of the localized messages are defined in the
top-level LYMessages_en.h
The configure script (--help) and INSTALLATION files document lynx from the
standpoint of building and installing. For _modifying_ the code, there's
no concise description. When I'm making changes to it, having a general
sense of where things are helps. Also, running "lynx -trace" logs a lot of
information to $HOME/Lynx.trace (and grep'ing for strings from the trace
file does help find things).
I'd expect you'll make changes to accommodate networking quirks, e.g,
in WWW/Library/Implementation/www_tcp.h (which, along with HTUtils.h) is
one of the principal places that platform-tweaks are made. The ones that
can be derived from a configure-script check are of course made there...
Thanks
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From: Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
To: Malik Aamir Shehzad <address@hidden>
CC: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Developer Documentation
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:40:03 -0400 (EDT)
>On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Malik Aamir Shehzad wrote:
>
>>Hi .... I am working on a project to port Lynx to Trimedia (an
>>embedded system plateform).... I am complete beginner with
Lynx...
>>I have its code and now I want to know how and where should I
start
>>to understand the code.. Can I get some help regarding this or
can
>>I obtain developer documentation from somewhere?
>
>The files in the source-tree are about all the documentation that
>exists.
>Since it's an embedded system, I'd assume you're going to
>cross-compile.
>Lynx's configure script might work for that - I made some changes
a
>few
>years ago to allow the utility in src/chrtrans to be built/run
with
>the
>build-machine's compiler, but don't have a cross-development
>environment that can build the whole application. (I did some of
>this using a djgpp cross-compiler that is able to build ncurses).
>
>Besides lynx, you'll need something like ncurses (even slang).
>
>Best thing to do is to build a copy on a machine that's easy to
>build on, i.e., no cross-compiling, and see what the pieces are.
>
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