[ug-bosug] Build instructions for Mozilla on Solaris (Fwd: Is my checklist for building Firefox/Mozilla correct ?)

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Thanks, will check it out.


On 3/14/07, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd used the following to build Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Solaris. I couldn't
> get this right with Firefox 2.0 and above.
>
> -- Sriram
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alfred Peng <Alfred.Peng at sun.com>
> Date: Jan 21, 2007 9:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Is my checklist for building Firefox/Mozilla correct ?
> To: Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com>
> Cc: mozorg-builds at sun.com
>
>
> Forward Ginn's instructions.
>
> -Alfred
>
> Sriram Narayanan wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I wish to build FireFox on Solaris, and perhaps even patch the build
> > scripts such that FireFox can be build out of the box on Solaris.
> > Please validate my checklist below.
> >
> > 1. Install Solaris 10
> > 2. Install the Sun Studio Compilers
> > 3. Download the FF sources from Mozilla
> > 4. Use the about:buildconfig in the FireFox build taken from the site
> >
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.1/contrib/solaris_tar_ball/
> > 5. Follow Masaki's advice given at
> >
> http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.builds/browse_thread/thread/4edcf532760cdb09/f140f47d46231bee#f140f47d46231bee
> >
> > Are the above correct ?
> >
> > Any advice is appreciated, especially because I have limited bandwidth
> > at home to download source from Mozilla (or anywhere else)
> >
> > -- Sriram
> >
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ginn Chen <Ginn.Chen at Sun.COM>
> To: Rick Mach <rmach at arlut.utexas.edu>
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:49:05 +0800
> Subject: Re: Firefox build instructions
> Hi Rick,
>
> You can find documents at
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Build_Documentation
>
> Here're some special setting for Solaris.
>
> You'd better use Sun Studio 11. You can download it from sun website for
> free.
> Here're my setting in bash.rc (on Solaris 10).
>
> export ForteHome=/opt/SUNWspro
> export
> PATH=$ForteHome/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/sfw/lib
> export CC="$ForteHome/bin/cc"
> export CXX="$ForteHome/bin/CC"
> export CFLAGS="-xlibmil"
> export CXXFLAGS="-xlibmil -xlibmopt -features=tmplife -norunpath"
> export LDFLAGS="-R'\$\$ORIGIN:\$\$ORIGIN/..' -R/usr/sfw/lib
> -R/opt/sfw/lib -R/usr/local/lib -lXft -lfontconfig"
>
> Now check out the code or download it from mozilla.org.
> cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co
> mozilla/client.mk
> cd mozilla
> make -f client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
>
> Create a file name .mozconfig in the mozilla source directory.
> Put these in the file:
> ac_add_options --enable-xft
> ac_add_options --disable-freetype2
> ac_add_options --disable-tests
> ac_add_options --disable-debug
> ac_add_options --disable-svg
> ac_add_options --disable-canvas
> ac_add_options --enable-optimize
> ac_add_options --disable-auto-deps
> ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
> ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
> . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
>
> For Solaris 8/9, you can use
> ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk
> ac_add_options --disable-xft
> ac_add_options --disable-freetype2
> instead.
>
> If you're building Firefox 2 or  earlier, you can use
> ac_add_options --enable-svg
> ac_add_options --enable-canvas
> (I have to disable them, because cairo-gtk2 toolkit is not stable on
> Solaris 10 yet)
>
> The last step is
> ./configure
> gmake
>
> You can find your build in dist/bin
>
> If you want a tar ball, cd xpinstall/packager and run gmake.
> (an error may occur here, use gtar instead of tar will be fine.)
>
> Let us know if you meet a problem.
> Please send detail information of your machine and the error log.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ginn
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2007, at 6:27 AM, Rick Mach wrote:
> I have a need to build my own copy of Firefox for Solaris.  Do you
> have instructions/makefile/etc that you could share that I could use
> as a starting point for utilizing the Firefox source code and getting
> it to compile for Solaris?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick Mach
> Applied Research Laboratories,
> The University of Texas at Austin
> 512-835-3644
>
>
> --------
> Ginn Chen
> Software Engineer, Browser Team
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> Phone: x82869 / +86-10-62673869
> Fax:   +86-10-62780969
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