XP Programmer's guide to the Macintosh build

Last updated 99/01/19

This page aims eventually to be the complete source of information for people writing XP code on another platform, and needing information about how not to break the Macintosh build, or how to make their stuff work on the Macintosh. Please send suggestions for this page to sfraser@netscape.com.

The main MacMozilla build information page is here.

Adding #defines to the Macintosh build
Edit mozilla/config/mac/NGLayoutConfigInclude.h. This file is included in all NGLayout-related projects.

Exporting headers to mozilla/dist
Macintosh uses MANIFEST files, combined with perl script. To export headers out of a directory, create a file called 'MANIFEST' that lists all the exported headers (see other MANIFEST files for examples). To add a new MANIFEST file to the build system, edit mozilla/build/mac/NGLayoutBuildList.pm.