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The source code for handling images has a double free problem. Recent versions of the GNU libc have a mechanism to automagically abort the program in such a case. This causes Mosaic to crash if images are displayed. I work around this issue by turning of automatical program abortion with a call to mallopt().
NCSA Mosaic
This is NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers. If you're on Ubuntu or something like it, your time machine is fueled up and ready to go. Follow the instructions below to build and run.
Many thanks to Sean MacLennan and Alan Wylie for doing the heavy lifting. And, of course, hats off to Marc Andreessen, Eric Bina, and the rest of the NCSA team for kicking things off for us. Thanks!
Building
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First, install these packages:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libmotif-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev x11proto-print-dev libxmu-headers libxpm-dev libxmu-dev -
Next, build with:
make linux -
Run!
src/Mosaic