【Apple & Orange】How to build Elinks in Mac OS X

Elinks is another good text modle web browser, is support frame, table, css, etc, and is more compatible than lynx, however, it does not support i18n, so it can not display Chinese.
Before the compiling process, make sure that you have Xcode installed.

Step 1: Get ssl support! Elinks will need gnutls or openssl to support ssl site, however, i just can not get openssl installed, so i use gnutls instead. In order to install gnutls, you need another two library file, libgpg-error and libgcrypt.

1. get libgpg-error from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/
install it by:
$./configure
$make
$sudo make install
2. get libgcrypt from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/
$./configure
$make
$sudo make install
3. get gnutls from ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/
(You also need the head file for gnutls, which is not included in the release folder. that is why you need the following step 4.)
4. get campat4.h from http://josefsson.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/gnutls/includes/gnutls/Attic/compat4.h
put it into gnutls folder.
5. install gnutls
$./configure
$make
$sudo make install

(In order to support Javascript, you also need spinemonkey, but there is something wrong with that. this is discussed in the end. So now we just dont bother much on JS)
6. Finally, you can compiling Elinks.
get elinks from http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-0.10.3.tar.bz2
$tar zxvf elinks-0.10.3.tar.bz2
$cd elinks-0.10.3
$./configure
$make
$sudo make install

More about the Javascript support:

The Ordinary process to get Javascript support is as follows, this is needed to be done before you compiling elinks:

1. get JavaScript library from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js-1.5-rc6a.tar.gz
2. expand it.(this will create a js direction)
3. make a patch file by doing:
$touch js.patch
$pico js.patch

and paste these content in:(excluded those #)

#################################

This quick'n'dirty patch enables relatively painless SpiderMonkey installation.
See doc/ecmascript.txt for details.

diff -ru js-1.5-rc6a/src/config.mk js-1.5-rc6a+elinks/src/config.mk
--- js-1.5-rc6a/src/config.mk    Sat Nov 15 01:10:55 2003
+++ js-1.5-rc6a+elinks/src/config.mk    Wed Sep 22 16:32:12 2004
@@ -37,10 +37,15 @@
 #
 # ***** END LICENSE BLOCK *****
 
+BUILD_OPT=1
+ifndef PREFIX
+PREFIX = /opt/spidermonkey
+endif
+
 ifdef JS_DIST
 DIST = $(JS_DIST)
 else
-DIST = $(DEPTH)/../../dist/$(OBJDIR)
+DIST = dist/
 endif
 
 # Set os+release dependent make variables
diff -ru js-1.5-rc6a/src/jsconfig.mk js-1.5-rc6a+elinks/src/jsconfig.mk
--- js-1.5-rc6a/src/jsconfig.mk    Sat Nov 15 01:10:56 2003
+++ js-1.5-rc6a+elinks/src/jsconfig.mk    Wed Sep 22 16:34:28 2004
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@
     echo $(NSPR_VERSION) > $(NSPR_VERSIONFILE)
 endif
 
-SHIP_DIST  = $(MOZ_DEPTH)/dist/$(OBJDIR)
-SHIP_DIR   = $(SHIP_DIST)/SHIP
+SHIP_DIST  = $(DIST)
+SHIP_DIR   = $(PREFIX)
 
 SHIP_LIBS      = libjs.$(SO_SUFFIX) libjs.a
 ifdef JS_LIVECONNECT
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
     SHIP_LIBS += jsj.dll jsj.lib
   endif
 endif
-SHIP_LIBS     += $(LCJAR)
+#SHIP_LIBS     += $(LCJAR)
 SHIP_LIBS     := $(addprefix $(SHIP_DIST)/lib/, $(SHIP_LIBS))
 
 SHIP_INCS      = js*.h prmjtime.h resource.h *.msg *.tbl
@@ -144,6 +144,14 @@
   JSREFJAR = jsref_dbg.jar
 endif
 endif
+
+install:
+    mkdir -p $(SHIP_DIR)/$(LIBDIR)
+    mkdir -p $(SHIP_DIR)/include
+    mkdir -p $(SHIP_DIR)/bin
+    cp $(SHIP_LIBS) $(SHIP_DIR)/$(LIBDIR)
+    cp $(SHIP_INCS) $(SHIP_DIR)/include
+    cp $(SHIP_BINS) $(SHIP_DIR)/bin
 
 ship:
     mkdir -p $(SHIP_DIR)/$(LIBDIR)
#################################

4. save and exit the js.patch file.
5. Patch the js file using js.patch
$cd js
$patch -p1 <../js.patch
$cd src
6. Change the path
$ sed 's#^PREFIX = /opt/spidermonkey#PREFIX = /usr/local#' < config.mk > config.mk.t
$ mv -f config.mk.t config.mk
7. Build make file
$ make -f Makefile.ref
$ make -f Makefile.ref export
8. Install
$ su -c 'make -f Makefile.ref install && (ldconfig -v | grep libjs)'
[noted by littleboy: you need to use this in Mac:
$ sudo make -f Makefile.ref install && (ldconfig -v | grep libjs)
]

Everything goes well except the final install step, because ldconfig command can not be found in Mac OS X, so the install process can not be completed. I have done lots of search, but still can not find ways to get this step done. Anyone get any idea, please feel free to drop me a email at guoweiokey@yahoo.com

Refference:
JavaScript support for Emacs