[ug-bosug] Build mozilla's gecko sdk on OpenSolaris

[Ananth Shrinivas]

Blastwave has the nice xchm utility that I use.
$ pkg-get install xchm

Ananth

G N S wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I have some ebooks that are in chm format. I had come across this nice 
> chm reader add-on to firefox. Wanted to have it on my SXCR system but it 
> failed saying SunOS not supported. It seems it has C++ components that 
> need a build on the target platform.
> 
> Now I checked if I could build it, but the build needs the mozilla gecko 
> sdk which again does not have ready Solaris build scripts/binaries. This 
> project by default supports windows and linux only. The build needs 
> gcc(recommended < 2.9.3) and make (2.13). The project has not moved to 
> the newer tool chain. Sunfreeware and Blastwave do not have these old 
> build tools.
> 
> An innocuous looking browser plugin has such back end dependancies! 
> CHMPane currently in alpha 
> state(http://sourceforge.net/projects/chmpane) is an alternate that I 
> tried and it seems to do a decent job.
> 
> If anyone has tried and been successful, can you share it with me. 
> (Solaris 10 has mozilla as the default browser and "probably" building 
> firefox also needs gecko sdk. So I assume there are people who have done 
> this).
> Else I am not interested enough to try it from scratch since alternative 
> is available.
> 
> regards
> Shiv
> 
> 
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