mlbrowser for Rasbian

This fork contains fixes and adjustments so that the browser can be compiled and run on a standard Rasbian installation. In addition to Raspbian it also needs the prebuilt Qt5 packages from http://twolife.be/raspbian ,

In Addition to the fork from @Topguy this fork does contain some minimal adjustments to allow the the browser to be displayed rotated for portrait mode displays. Furthermore the Mousecursor can be hidden.

HOW-TO:

Start with.

Raspbian installed from image or NOOBS.

Add the twolife.be repository to you software sources:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 2578B775
sudo bash -c "echo \"deb http://twolife.be/raspbian/ wheezy main backports\" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/twolife.list"

(You might still get warnings about non-authenticated packages, havent looked into it.)

Update and upgrade:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install minimal Qt5 requirements and make Qt5 default Qt environment.

sudo apt-get install libqt5webkit5-dev qtdeclarative5-dev qt5-default qt5-qmake

Checkout source:

git clone https://github.com/Topguy/mlbrowser.git
cd mlbrowser

Configure build

mkdir build
cd build
qmake DEFINES+=_BROWSER_ DEFINES+=_MOUSE_ DEFINES+=_PROPERTYCHANGER_ ../src/mlbrowser.pro

build

make

NOTE!!! It will now fail to link with a list of libraries it can't find. It doesnt really need those libraries, so as a hack you replace the line starting with "LIBS" in the Makefile with this line:

LIBS

LIBS = $(SUBLIBS) -L/opt/vc/lib -lQt5WebKitWidgets -pthread -lrt -L/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf -lQt5Sql -lQt5Quick -lQt5OpenGL -lQt5PrintSupport -lQt5WebKit -lQt5Qml -lQt5Widgets -lQt5Network -lQt5Gui -lQt5Core -lGLESv2 -lpthread

then rerun make

make

NOTE!!! If you get a not found warning for libGLESv2.so.2 and libEGL.so.1, create the following symlinks:

sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libEGL.so.1
sudo ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2.so /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2.so.2

And now it should link properly.

Test it:

./mlbrowser -platform eglfs http://www.raspberrypi.org

Install it:

sudo make install

View local html-file:

mlbrowser -platform eglfs file:///home/pi/mlbrowser/start.html

New program options

-x or -w adjusts horizontal overscan.

-y or -h adjusts vertical overscan.

-z adjusts zoom-factor (something like 1.3 to 1.6 looks nice on my TV)

mlbrowser -platform eglfs -x 92 -y 48 -z 1.3 http://www.google.com

-r sets rotation mode 1: rotate 90 degrees clockwise 2: rotate 180 degrees clockwise 3: rotate 270 degrees clockwise (aka. 90 degrees counterclockwise)

-m hide the mouse cursor

TIP No.1:

If you add mlbrowser to /etc/rc.local it will cause yout Pi to boot directly into the browser on each boot. But you'll have to use the full path to the binary.

/usr/local/bin/mlbrowser -platform eglfs http://www.google.com

TIP No.2:

Adding this to a script or your .profile file make sure that you dont have to write "-platform eglfs" every time.

export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=eglfs

mlbrowser

(original readme)

This is the respository for the mlbrowser that has been developed by Metrological. It can be used with the buildroot fork at https://github.com/albertd/buildroot-rpi or its fork https://github.com/msieben/buildroot-rpi.git.

You can add this package to your own fork of buildroot by adding the Config.in and mlbrowser.mk files.

Config.in

config BR2_PACKAGE_MLBROWSER
bool "mlbrowser"
help
  Metrological's simple (accellerated) browser implementation
  http://www.metrological.com

mlbrowser.mk

#############################################################
#
# mlbrowser
#
#############################################################

MLBROWSER_VERSION = e7bba1439ff9b38dfd36c6222e4825c5d17e7677
MLBROWSER_SITE_METHOD = git
MLBROWSER_SITE = https://github.com/msieben/mlbrowser.git

ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QT5WEBKIT),y)
MLBROWSER_DEPENDENCIES = qt5webkit
endif

ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QT_WEBKIT),y)
MLBROWSER_DEPENDENCIES = qt gstreamer
endif

define MLBROWSER_CONFIGURE_CMDS
	(cd $(@D); \
		$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) \
		$(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/qmake \
			DEFINES+=_BROWSER_ \
			DEFINES+=_MOUSE_ \
			DEFINES+=_PROPERTYCHANGER_ \
			./src/mlbrowser.pro \
	)
endef

define MLBROWSER_BUILD_CMDS
	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D)
endef

define MLBROWSER_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0755 $(@D)/mlbrowser $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin
endef

define MLBROWSER_UNINSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
	rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/mlbrowser
endef

$(eval $(generic-package))

Have fun!