Dillo is already packaged in many Linux distributions. To use the binary from your distribution check your package manager. Example in Arch Linux:
$ sudo pacman -S dillo
Dillo requires FLTK-1.3, if you don't have it (try fltk-config --version
to check), follow the steps in the FLTK documentation to
install it:
https://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/intro.html
Additionally, it is strongly recommended that you install a TLS library to browse HTTPS pages. Currently, Dillo supports any of the following libraries:
- OpenSSL 1.1 or 3
- LibreSSL
- mbedTLS 2 or 3 (TLSv1.3 is not supported yet)
If you don't want to use a TLS library, use the configure option
--disable-tls
to disable TLS support. You can use --disable-openssl
and --disable-mbedtls
to control the search. By default OpenSSL or
LibreSSL is search first, then mbedTLS.
For Debian, you can use the following command to install the required packages to build Dillo:
$ sudo apt install gcc g++ autoconf automake make zlib1g-dev \
libfltk1.3-dev libssl-dev libc6-dev \
libpng-dev libjpeg-dev
If you prefer to use mbedTLS, replace libssl-dev
with
libmbedtls-dev
.
To build and install Dillo follow the steps below.
$ tar jxvf dillo-3.0.5.tar.bz2
$ cd dillo-3.0.5
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ git clone https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo.git
$ cd dillo
$ ./autogen.sh
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ sudo make install
In order to use the hyphenation feature, pattern files from CTAN need to
be installed. This can be done with the script
dillo-install-hyphenation
. Call it with ISO-639-1 language codes
("en", "es", "de"...) as arguments, or without arguments to get more
help.
These are installed by make install
. If you don't have root access,
copy "dillo" and "dpid" to some directory in your path and install
the dpis by running ./install-dpi-local
from the top directory (they
will be installed under ~/.dillo).
On FreeBSD 14.0 you can install the required dependencies from ports as:
$ pkg install -y automake fltk
Notice that on BSD systems, some required dependencies like FLTK are
available as ports and are installed in /usr/local (instead of /usr).
Additionally, the compiler won't look for headers or libraries in
/usr/local by default (you can check with $CC -v), however the $PATH
may include /usr/local/bin, so the binaries may be available but not the
headers. Some dependencies like FLTK are searched invoking the
fltk-config
command that inform where to find the headers and
libraries for that package.
Other libraries are searched by attempting to locate the headers and libraries directly. By default, the configure script won't look in non-default paths of the compiler, so to add /usr/local to the search path, invoke the configure script with the following options:
$ ./configure CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include' LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib'
Note that you'll need GNU make to build Dillo.
If it crashes or locks at times, use the --disable-threaded-dns
option, so Dillo uses a single thread for name resolution.
Dillo may compile and run OK on Solaris but (please report). Use gmake (a symbolic link make -> gmake works OK).
Solaris is very inconsistent so you may need to add/remove:
-lrt -lposix4
at link time.
Dillo is now packaged in Homebrew.
$ brew install dillo
To build Dillo on MacOS you would need to get FLTK as well as autoconf and automake if you are building Dillo from the git repository. They are available in the Homebrew package manager:
$ brew install autoconf automake fltk
For OpenSSL you can use either 1.1 or 3.X (recommended):
$ brew install [email protected]
$ brew install openssl@3
Homebrew installs libraries and headers in different folders depending on the architecture (Intel vs ARM), so you will need to invoke the configure script with the following options so it knows where to search:
$ ./configure LDFLAGS="-L`brew --prefix openssl`/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I`brew --prefix openssl`/include"
Dillo can be built for Windows (tested on Windows 11) by using the Cygwin POSIX portability layer and run with Xorg. You will need the following dependencies to build Dillo with mbedTLS:
gcc-core gcc-g++ autoconf automake make zlib-devel mbedtls-devel libfltk-devel
libiconv-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel
Note: Dillo can also be built with OpenSSL (libssl-devel) but there is a
known problem with detached threads
used by the DNS resolver and OpenSSL that causes a crash. If you use OpenSSL,
disable the threaded resolver with --disable-threaded-dns
.
You will also need Xorg to run Dillo graphically:
xorg-server xinit
You can also install all the dependencies from the command line with:
setup-x86_64.exe -q -P gcc-core,gcc-g++,autoconf,automake,make,zlib-devel,mbedtls-devel,libfltk-devel,libiconv-devel,libpng-devel,libjpeg-devel,xorg-server,xinit
To build Dillo, follow the usual steps from a Cygwin shell:
$ git clone https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo.git
$ cd dillo
$ ./autogen.sh
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ make install
You should be able to find Dillo in the $PATH
as it should be installed in
/usr/local/bin/dillo
. To run it, you first need to have an Xorg server
running, which you can
do from a shell:
$ startxwin
And then, from another shell:
$ export DISPLAY=:0
$ dillo