[Buildroot] Is there an official browser patch for Buildroot?

[Patricia Holden]

I do have a TI SK-AM62 dev board to use too.  If someone could help me out
with setting up Buildroot to just bring up a single page web browser so I
can start my react-app frontend UI, that would be awesome!

On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 5:09 PM Patricia Holden <pholden at nklabs.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately I cannot use WPEWebKit with Beagleplay dev board I'm using.
> It requires OpenGL which has no Beagleplay support at the moment.  What
> about matchbox-window-manager?
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 3:53 PM Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 01/04/2024 20:56, Patricia Holden wrote:
>> > I just need a simple web page I can run a react app on.  If you know of
>> any
>> > examples of this, please share!  I have tried using matchbox, but not
>> sure I'm
>> > configuring it correctly.
>>
>>   That's exactly what qt-webkit-kiosk is meant for. Oh, and I forgot cog
>> earlier: that's the same kind of tool but without pulling in Qt. Note:
>> you need
>> to enable WPEWebKit to be able to enable cog in Buildroot.
>>
>>   cog is much better maintained - I added Adrian in Cc who works on
>> WPEWebKit
>> and cog in Buildroot.
>>
>>   Regards,
>>   Arnout
>>
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 2:38 PM Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be
>> > <mailto:arnout at mind.be>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     On 01/04/2024 20:00, Patricia Holden wrote:
>> >      > I found a few topics online about a patch for chromium, but they
>> are
>> >     dated 2018
>> >      > or older.  Is there an official patch to add the
>> chromium-browser as a
>> >     package
>> >      > for Buildroot?  Or how about "minibrowser", which I have also
>> seen topics
>> >     in an
>> >      > online search?
>> >
>> >        I don't think there has ever been an attempt to attempt chromium
>> itself, but
>> >     there was an attempt at patches for Chromium Embedded Framework
>> (CEF). That's
>> >     not a browser, however, just a browser engine. And anyway it turned
>> out that
>> >     Chromium (and firefox) are way too complicated with too many
>> vendored
>> >     dependencies and crazy buildsystems.
>> >
>> >        There are a bunch of alternative browser engines: qt5webengine,
>> qt5webkit,
>> >     webkitgtk, wpewebkit.
>> >
>> >        There are also a few simple "frontends" for these, that
>> basically render a
>> >     single webpage and then allow you to browse (so no things like
>> history,
>> >     bookmarks, plugins, etc.): qt-webkit-kiosk, qt5webview; and a more
>> complete
>> >     browser: midori.
>> >
>> >        Finally, there's also the text-mode browser links, but I don't
>> suppose that
>> >     that is what you're looking for.
>> >
>> >
>> >        Regards,
>> >        Arnout
>> >
>> >      >
>> >      > Thanks!
>> >      > Pat Holden, NK Labs
>> >      >
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