This project is an attempt to bring Mozilla (as defined by the Netscape 5.0 source code release) to the BeOS. One of the primary goals of this project is to leverage the strengths of the BeOS in order to provide an enhanced version of Mozilla for this platform...

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• BeOS R4.5 [ x86 only ]
• cvs
• perl
• glib & libIDL - a quick BeOS port... [ 837.8 kb ]
• at least 128MB of virtual memory
• up to 1Gb disk space for the whole tree compiled with debugging
• good net connection from BeOS to keep the sources in sync

How to set up your environment (first time):

We'll assume you'll be working from /boot/home/

cd /boot/home/
unzip glib-libIDL-beos.zip
mv glib-libIDL-beos mozlibs
mkdir mozdev
mv mozlibs mozdev
cd mozdev/mozlibs
buildscript
cd ..
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot
cvs login (the password is 'anonymous')
cvs -z3 co SeaMonkeyAll

Now you have the full Mozilla sources, you have to first build the support libraries. Place them anywhere you like and run the 'buildscript' that comes with the package.

Now set the environment variables as instructed, for example:

export GLIB_CONFIG=/boot/home/mozdev/mozlibs/glib/bin/glib-config
export LIBIDL_CONFIG=/boot/home/mozdev/mozlibs/libIDL/bin/libIDL-config

Now let's configure and build:

cd /boot/home/mozdev/mozilla/
./configure --enable-necko \
            --enable-cpp-rtti \
            --enable-mailnews \
            --without-png \
            --without-zlib \
            --enable-debug \
            --disable-strip-libs
make

This will produce a full debugging build, the final binaries are under /boot/home/mozdev/mozilla/dist/bin. It's no longer necessary to build with full debugging to be able to produce inter-library dependencies, however you'll want debugging info if you want to try and trace through the code with bdb.

The resulting binaries won't be correctly linked. You have to do this to generate link dependencies and rebuild:

cd /boot/home/mozdev/mozilla/
perl config/beos/depend.pl dist/bin/*.so dist/bin/components/*.so
touch -t 01010101 dist/bin/*.so dist/bin/components/*.so
make

How to set up your environment (after the first time):

cd /boot/home/mozdev/
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot
cvs -z3 co SeaMonkeyAll
export GLIB_CONFIG=/boot/home/mozdev/mozlibs/glib/bin/glib-config
export LIBIDL_CONFIG=/boot/home/mozdev/mozlibs/libIDL/bin/libIDL-config
cd mozilla
make

The resulting binaries might not be able to run if inter-library dependencies have changed (they're not required or updated on other platforms), you'll get a "missing symbol" error. In this case you'll have to repeat the dependency generation and rebuild:

cd /boot/home/mozdev/mozilla/
perl config/beos/depend.pl dist/bin/*.so dist/bin/components/*.so
touch -t 01010101 dist/bin/*.so dist/bin/components/*.so
make

• m11 builds on BeOS...
• updated screenshots...

  While it is possible to build and run m11 on BeOS, it is unstable and should only be run by those who are interested in helping us debug and test BeZilla. We won't be releasing BeOS binaries for m11. If you are interested in helping us, please follow the instructions above to build m11 on BeOS.

team BeZilla

Name	BeDevID	Info
Duncan Wilcox	E-1026	Technical Lead
Matthew Zahorik	15277	NSPR
Peter Schultz	7322	UI
Richard Hess	9936	Website, News
Yannick Koehler	18956	Gfx, UI

Contacting team BeZilla

Please contact us through the netscape.public.mozilla.beos newsgroup on news.mozilla.org.

You might also find us lurking on #mozilla on irc.mozilla.org or #bedev on EFnet.

If you have found a bug you can submit it through http://bugzilla.mozilla.org, please be sure to mark the bug as specific to the BeOS. Please follow the bugzilla guidelines when submitting bugs.

1. 07.14.98: alpha release of NSPR for BeOS...
2. 08.23.98: initial port of ngLayout...
3. 10.24.98: BeOS beta R4 port of ngLayout...
4. 01.13.99: First screenshot of Mozilla on BeOS!!!
5. 01.27.99: BeOS port of NSPR officially part of Mozilla...
6. 06.09.99: BeZilla ALPHA release available!!!
7. 11.22.99: m11 builds on BeOS...