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I have compiled Mozilla Firebird quite a few times. I have the Mozilla tree on my comp, as well as all the req'd build tools.
What additional components should I download? What do I put in MOZCONFIG?
Thanks.
Hmmm. No one know, huh? I'm tired of waiting for 0.8 and I want to compile the latest CVS.
Nilson:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?f=2&i=1671&t=1650
I'm pretty sure I also posted build instructions for using Moz 1.3 / 1.4 at some point but I can't find the thread right now...
Shelumi`El
Jordan
S.D.G
I have the latest source tree and all.
Can someone convert the dsps to makefiles for me? I don't use M$. I want to get this working on MinGW/Cygwin/GCC
Unfortunately you need visual studio for the MFC libraries and includes.
Shelumi`El
Jordan
S.D.G
Is there any hope that MinGW builds will be possible now that the 0.8 betas are being built off of a trunk that is MinGW-friendly?
This issue is going to drive me toward FireBird. Someone here should give serious thought to removing the M$V$ dependency. It strikes me as odd that one would have to pay thousands of dollars to build an open source app, but then, it is targetted for running on M$ platforms isn't it?
K-Meleon is based on MfcEmbed, which is a embedding test browser in Mozilla. MfcEmbed uses the MFC libraries which are in Microsoft Visual C++. Mozilla can be build with MinGW, but MfcEmbed and K-Meleon can't because of this.
Also, there is some problems in the MinGW builds of Mozilla, like some of the Mozilla/Netscape plugins wont work. The greatest is probably Suns Java plugin, which is used much.
MinGW is only a Tier-3 platform and MVC++ is a Tier-1 platform in Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/build/faq.html#supported), which means MVC++ is Mozillas primary focus for Win32 platforms.
Getting K-Meleon to build with MinGW would mean a complete redo of the source code, 'cause MFC is Microsofts property and it surely won't let free compilers to use it.
This is one of the things I don't like about K-Meleon, but it isn't K-Meleons developers fault. Go blame to Mozilla for using MVC++ in the first place. The second thing I don't like about K-Meleon is that it isn't for Linux. :p And those are about the only things I don't like about K-Meleon, otherwise I love it. =)
-dpb
Can k-meleon plugins be built using GCC rather than MVC++?
I think that would solve my problem.
DnOlvrB:
IIRC, Ulf was using MinGW (which uses GCC as the compiler) for a long time and developed half the KM plugins on it, so I think it will work fine to compile the plugins, though I've never tried.
Shelumi`El
Jordan
S.D.G
K-Meleon development related discussions.
Compiling K-Meleon
Posted by:
Nilson
Date: September 06, 2003 01:13AM
I have compiled Mozilla Firebird quite a few times. I have the Mozilla tree on my comp, as well as all the req'd build tools.
What additional components should I download? What do I put in MOZCONFIG?
Thanks.
Re: Compiling K-Meleon
Posted by:
Nilson
Date: September 06, 2003 07:02PM
Hmmm. No one know, huh? I'm tired of waiting for 0.8 and I want to compile the latest CVS.
Re: Compiling K-Meleon
Posted by:
MonkeeSage
Date: September 07, 2003 03:24AM
Nilson:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?f=2&i=1671&t=1650
I'm pretty sure I also posted build instructions for using Moz 1.3 / 1.4 at some point but I can't find the thread right now...
Shelumi`El
Jordan
S.D.G
Re: Compiling K-Meleon
Posted by:
Nilson
Date: September 07, 2003 04:49AM
I have the latest source tree and all.
Can someone convert the dsps to makefiles for me? I don't use M$. I want to get this working on MinGW/Cygwin/GCC
Re: Compiling K-Meleon
Posted by:
MonkeeSage
Date: September 08, 2003 04:10PM
Unfortunately you need visual studio for the MFC libraries and includes.
Shelumi`El
Jordan
S.D.G
Re: Compiling K-Meleon
Posted by:
Nilson
Date: November 04, 2003 06:48AM
Is there any hope that MinGW builds will be possible now that the 0.8 betas are being built off of a trunk that is MinGW-friendly?
Re: Compiling K-Meleon
Posted by:
DnOlvrB
Date: November 05, 2003 07:12PM
This issue is going to drive me toward FireBird. Someone here should give serious thought to removing the M$V$ dependency. It strikes me as odd that one would have to pay thousands of dollars to build an open source app, but then, it is targetted for running on M$ platforms isn't it?
Re: Compiling K-Meleon
Posted by:
dpb
Date: November 07, 2003 10:40PM
K-Meleon is based on MfcEmbed, which is a embedding test browser in Mozilla. MfcEmbed uses the MFC libraries which are in Microsoft Visual C++. Mozilla can be build with MinGW, but MfcEmbed and K-Meleon can't because of this.
Also, there is some problems in the MinGW builds of Mozilla, like some of the Mozilla/Netscape plugins wont work. The greatest is probably Suns Java plugin, which is used much.
MinGW is only a Tier-3 platform and MVC++ is a Tier-1 platform in Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/build/faq.html#supported), which means MVC++ is Mozillas primary focus for Win32 platforms.
Getting K-Meleon to build with MinGW would mean a complete redo of the source code, 'cause MFC is Microsofts property and it surely won't let free compilers to use it.
This is one of the things I don't like about K-Meleon, but it isn't K-Meleons developers fault. Go blame to Mozilla for using MVC++ in the first place. The second thing I don't like about K-Meleon is that it isn't for Linux. :p And those are about the only things I don't like about K-Meleon, otherwise I love it. =)
-dpb
Re: Compiling K-Meleon
Posted by:
DnOlvrB
Date: November 13, 2003 05:47PM
Can k-meleon plugins be built using GCC rather than MVC++?
I think that would solve my problem.
Re: Compiling K-Meleon
Posted by:
MonkeeSage
Date: January 15, 2004 06:59AM
DnOlvrB:
IIRC, Ulf was using MinGW (which uses GCC as the compiler) for a long time and developed half the KM plugins on it, so I think it will work fine to compile the plugins, though I've never tried.
Shelumi`El
Jordan
S.D.G
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