Re: [platform-swt-dev] Building swt-mozilla*.so how-to required

["Sriram Narayanan" <sriramnrn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/1/06, Grant Gayed <Grant_Gayed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Sriram,
>
> SWT always compiles its mozilla libraries against a built mozilla 1.4, as is required to ensure backwards compatibility with mozilla versions this far back.  Instructions for compiling mozilla (any version) are at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Build_Documentation .  The following .mozconfig file should work for you:
>
> mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=<pathToMozillaSourceRootDir>/builddir
> ac_add_options --disable-optimize
> ac_add_options --enable-debug
> ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
> ac_add_options --disable-freetype2
> ac_add_options --enable-application=suite
> mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=suite
>
> (you may wish to remove the enable-debug line)
>
> Once this is done, the variables that are set before invoking swt's build.sh are:
>
> GECKO_SDK <yourBuiltMozillaPath>/dist/sdk
> GECKO_INCLUDES "-include ${GECKO_SDK}/mozilla-config.h -I${GECKO_SDK}/nspr/include -I${GECKO_SDK}/xpcom/include -I${GECKO_SDK}/string/include -I${GECKO_SDK}/embed_base/include -I${GECKO_SDK}/embedstring/include"
> GECKO_LIBS "-L${GECKO_SDK}/embedstring/bin -lembedstring -L${GECKO_SDK}/embed_base/bin -lembed_base_s -L${GECKO_SDK}/xpcom/bin -lxpcomglue_s -lxpcom -L${GECKO_SDK}/nspr/bin -lnspr4 -lplds4 -lplc4"
>
> And finally...
>
> sh build.sh clean
> sh build.sh make_mozilla install
>
> ...should build everything for you.

Thanks a lot of the above information. I've started to download the
source, and hope to get this working soon.
> > (I've seen that even the Linux SWT standalone build doesn't
> > have the mozilla bindings within it.
>
>
> Of the linuxes only ppc is missing these libraries.  Are you on ppc?

No. I'm on x86. And Neither the Solaris, nor the Linux builds for
3.2RC6 has the swt-mozilla binary.

> HTH,
> Grant
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>  "Sriram Narayanan" <sriramnrn@xxxxxxxxx>
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> 06/01/2006 01:13 AM
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> On 6/1/06, Derek Anderson <public@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > might help:
>  > http://kered.org/article-2004.07.10-HOWTO_build_eclipse_v3_linux_gtk_ppc.html
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>  Thanks.
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>  Some time after I posted, I got the basic SWT to compile. It's the
>  Mozilla specific make target that I can't seem to get to compile. This
>  target is not part of the all: target.
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>  I've downloaded the Mozilla 1.7.12/1.7.13 sources and binaries, and
>  have set the GECKO_INCLUDE, GECKO_LIB variables, as figured that
>  they're not really being used in the make file. I finally started to
>  figure out which headers are referenced by the xpcom.cpp cource file,
>  and started to mention their paths in the include arguments
>  e.g.
>  -I${MOZILLA_SOURCE}/nsprpub/
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>  It there are a few .h files that some of the mozilla headers seem to
>  want, but which are not present.
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>  My goal:
>  Get the libswt-mozilla-*.so file to build on Solaris and Linux (I've
>  seen that even the Linux SWT standalone build doesn't have the mozilla
>  bindings within it.
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>  -- Sriram
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