Building Mozilla: Redhat on Intel (out of date)

1. Introduction
2. Requirements/Environment
3. Get the Code
4. Build the Lizard
5. After the Build

1. Introduction

This document is intended as an express-lane for building mozilla on redhat linux systems on intel machines.

2. Requirements/Environment

• Download the following (into an empty directory, preferably):
  • glib
  • glib-devel
  • gtk+
  • gtk+-devel
  • nspr-pthreads
  • nspr-pthreads-devel
  • libIDL
  • libIDL-devel


• Try running the following commands:

  rpm -e gtk+-devel
  rpm -e glib-devel
  rpm -e libIDL-devel
  rpm -i glib*
  rpm -i gtk*
  rpm -i nspr*
  rpm -i libIDL*

  (note: you need to be root, and run them from the directory you saved the above rpms into)
  
  
• Everything else you need should be provided with Redhat linux 5.1 (or later), except for fixes to glibc 2.0.7, which:

  rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/libraries/RPMS/i386/glibc-2.0.7-32.i386.rpm
  rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/libraries/RPMS/i386/glibc-devel-2.0.7-32.i386.rpm

  
  should take care of for you.

3. Get the Code

If you have not done so already: get the code.

4. Build the Lizard

• Change directories to the toplevel mozilla/ directory.
• Run the following commands:

  ./configure --with-pthreads
  make depend
  make

5. After the Build

After the build there are two primary executables: viewer and apprunner. These are symbolically linked to from mozilla/dist/bin. At the moment, apprunner is the closest thing to a browser. The viewer program serves as a test application for the layout engine.

To run these, you need to either:


setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd`
setenv MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME `pwd`
or
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`



export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=`pwd`


from the mozilla/dist/bin directory before running.