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

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 02/04/2024 00:27, Patricia Holden wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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

  Both Beagleplay and SK-AM62 have the AM625 with the same Rogue GPU, no? AFAIK 
the driver for that hasn't been integrated in Buildroot yet (I think it's [1]). 
And we don't have a defconfig for Beagleplay yet but I expect it should be 
pretty similar to ti_am62x_sk_defconfig.

>     about matchbox-window-manager?

  matchbox is a window manager, not a browser.

  Regards,
  Arnout

> 
>     On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 3:53 PM Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be
>     <mailto: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>
>          > <mailto: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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