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I recall someone wanted this? Fixed now.

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Colors are wrong, endianness-related bugs again, but it works: chamo, code editor in OCaml.
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I have added AnimeSnap port. Used Qt4-based branch, so it works on PowerPC.
Can identify a specific anime, episode and time from a given screenshot. Confirmed to work.

P. S. Use qt4-mac-devel port with it, if you are on 10.6 and use my pre-built packages. When building from source, both regular and -devel Qt4 should do. The issue is that py-pyqt4 port built with these are incompatible. You can switch on the go like:
Code: 
sudo port -f deactivate qt4-mac
sudo port -v -N install qt4-mac-devel
 
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I wonder if latest elinks works? In 0.19rc1 there were such lines in NEWS file:

github.com

GitHub - rkd77/elinks: Fork of elinks

Fork of elinks. Contribute to rkd77/elinks development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com
ELinks 0.19.0rc1
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Released on 2025-12-06

* option document.browse.margin_auto #360 (hard margins)
* TERM=dumb for js tests. #361
* option document.html.compress_empty_lines #362
* css visiblity: hidden support
* experimental iframe support
* spartan protocol
* window.scroll in js
* inline images support in html documents (meson option kitty)
and options document.html.kitty and document.html.sixel. Note that need
also enable kitty or sixel in terminal options
* include-fragment support (now is easier to download something from github)
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Of course for GUI-driven OS like OSX it sounds silly to use console browser, but if it can download src from too popular github ... I have earlier version from 2024 compiled on Slackware, I can read discussions on github but not tried downloads yet. new build I tried to configure desires libdom/libcss (from Netsurf?)
 
Andrew-R said:
I wonder if latest elinks works? In 0.19rc1 there were such lines in NEWS file:

github.com

GitHub - rkd77/elinks: Fork of elinks

Fork of elinks. Contribute to rkd77/elinks development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com


Of course for GUI-driven OS like OSX it sounds silly to use console browser, but if it can download src from too popular github ... I have earlier version from 2024 compiled on Slackware, I can read discussions on github but not tried downloads yet. new build I tried to configure desires libdom/libcss (from Netsurf?)
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I had no idea it is out-of-date in MacPorts, since port details does not show that. I can try.

There are a few other text-based browsers in ports, if you are interested to try. If I manage to fix Nim, we may get chawan working. No promised at the moment though.
 
Andrew-R said:
I wonder if latest elinks works? In 0.19rc1 there were such lines in NEWS file:

github.com

GitHub - rkd77/elinks: Fork of elinks

Fork of elinks. Contribute to rkd77/elinks development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com


Of course for GUI-driven OS like OSX it sounds silly to use console browser, but if it can download src from too popular github ... I have earlier version from 2024 compiled on Slackware, I can read discussions on github but not tried downloads yet. new build I tried to configure desires libdom/libcss (from Netsurf?)
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Builds just fine.

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P. S. JS support needs a couple of dependencies which need to be added. They should build fine, since AFAIU they are parts of NetSurf browser, which builds and works.
 
Hi friends! I am a long time observer, but registered just now.

For quite some time I was very excited about your project, and just last week I decided to try it on my single CPU 2.3 GHz G5, on 10.5.8 at first.

But after a couple of days of compiling dependencies, I ran into a few which refuse to compile, gd2 (which according to my boyfriend is because of libheif) yt-dlp, yt-dlp-ejs (I was able to kind of make them compile by using python310 instead of the specified 313), QMPlay2 (which cannot find any of the qt4 plugins it wants), vim, py313-asn1 and ghostscript.

Should I post the complete logs of all this? Is it more likely to be ok on 10.6.8?

Thank you for your work!
 
wewishyouhealth said:
But after a couple of days of compiling dependencies, I ran into a few which refuse to compile, gd2 (which according to my boyfriend is because of libheif) yt-dlp, yt-dlp-ejs (I was able to kind of make them compile by using python310 instead of the specified 313)
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Then something else is failing? yt-dlp itself has nothing to compile, it is a pure-python port. If you install ports as `sudo port -v install`, it will show what it does and where the failure happens. What we need to know is which port actually fails to build, not the end-point of what was intended to be installed.

wewishyouhealth said:
QMPlay2 (which cannot find any of the qt4 plugins it wants)
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This should not happen, and I had a working build on Leopard: https://macos-powerpc.org/packages_ppc64/QMPlay2
Could you confirm if you use PPCPorts base and not standard MacPorts (possibly with sources from PPCPorts added to sources.conf)? Also, does it fail to build or fails at runtime?

wewishyouhealth said:
vim, py313-asn1 and ghostscript.

Should I post the complete logs of all this?
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Yes, please. Preferably as an issue on GitHub or CodeBerg.

wewishyouhealth said:
Is it more likely to be ok on 10.6.8?
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On 10.6.8 you get a lot of ports pre-built, plus it is the system where I test and fix stuff, so yes, for building third-party software 10.6.8 will be easier.

wewishyouhealth said:
Thank you for your work!
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Good to know it is useful, thank you.
 
barracuda156 said:
Then something else is failing? yt-dlp itself has nothing to compile, it is a pure-python port. If you install ports as `sudo port -v install`, it will show what it does and where the failure happens. What we need to know is which port actually fails to build, not the end-point of what was intended to be installed.
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Interesting, though I have to mention that I currently have no logs of yt-dlp and -ejs, since I have removed the broken gd2 port, but when it's working I will add then on GitHub

barracuda156 said:
This should not happen, and I had a working build on Leopard: https://macos-powerpc.org/packages_ppc64/QMPlay2
Could you confirm if you use PPCPorts base and not standard MacPorts (possibly with sources from PPCPorts added to sources.conf)? Also, does it fail to build or fails at runtime?
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Indeed, I have also tried this prebuilt from _ppc64 that you mentioned, however, just as the 10.6.8 prebuilt, it crashes on startup, without displaying any bit of UI. And yes, I followed what was said for 10.5.8 on your website

barracuda156 said:
On 10.6.8 you get a lot of ports pre-built, plus it is the system where I test and fix stuff, so yes, for building third-party software 10.6.8 will be easier.
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I will try the same set of ports today when I install 10.6.8 as well, I will be informing you of any issues

Here is my issue on GitHub: https://github.com/macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports/issues/45
 
I guess I am limited to 10.5.8 after all - 10.6.8 A5 doesn’t boot, instead it displays a gray background with an instruction to turn off my Mac
 
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