# Nordstjernen 0.9.9+nightly.20260604.g54bf20f — Linux x86_64 binary

Stripped, LTO-optimised build. The browser engine itself (lexbor,
gumbo, quickjs, uchardet wrapper) is statically linked
into the binary. The GTK 4 desktop stack stays dynamic because it
expects to find pixbuf loaders, IM modules and font/theme data on
the host at runtime — fully-static GTK isn't practical.

## Runtime requirements

This is a musl build (linked against ld-musl-x86_64.so.1). It will not run
against the other C library — pick the matching download.

- musl libc (Alpine 3.19+ era and later)
- GTK 4.6+, with gio, gobject, pango, cairo, gdk-pixbuf
- libcurl with a TLS backend
- libuchardet
- librsvg (SVG rendering)
- fontconfig + a font set; harfbuzz; freetype; libstdc++
- ca-certificates (TLS trust store)
- An X11 or Wayland session

Distro install commands:

    sudo apk add gtk4.0 libcurl uchardet librsvg ca-certificates \
        font-dejavu                                                    # Alpine (musl)

For Linux distros without modern GTK 4, build an AppImage instead
(future work).

## Run

    ./nordstjernen https://example.com

## Install on user path

    install -Dm755 nordstjernen ~/.local/bin/nordstjernen
    install -Dm644 data/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/nordstjernen.svg \
        ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/nordstjernen.svg

## License

Source-available; redistribution / commercial use require a license.
Copyright 2026 Andreas Røsdal. See README.md for details.
