Building Fizzilla

by Mike Pinkerton
last modified on 2/23/2000

Note, this is not complete.

How to build...

There are 3 major steps to setup and build:

• Download, build, and install gLib
• Download, build, and install libIDL
• Download, tweak, tweak, and build Mozilla.

Building glib-1.2.6

http://www.gtk.org/

1. Download ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/glib-1.2.6.tar.gz

2. Extract % gzip -d -c glib-1.2.6.tar.gz | tar xvf - % cd glib-1.2.6/

3. Workaround cpp bug - Radar #2398808: "Macros with Variable Numbers of Arguments (## args) don't work." % setenv CFLAGS -traditional-cpp

4. Build  % ./configure --host=powerpc-apple-rhapsody10.0 % make

5. Install (you need to be root) % su root # make install # exit % cd ..

Building libIDL-0.6.8

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gtk/libIDL-0.6.8/

(note: why are we getting the HP/UX version? There has got to be a better one out there)

1. Download ftp://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hpux/Gtk/libIDL-0.6.8/libIDL-0.6.8-ss-11.00.tar.gz

2. Extract % gzip -d -c libIDL-0.6.8-ss-11.00.tar.gz | tar xvf - % cd libIDL-0.6.8/

3. Disable HP/UX Patches % mv HPUX.Install HPUX.Install.not

4. Workaround cpp bug - Radar #2398808: "Macros with Variable Numbers of Arguments (## args) don't work." % setenv CFLAGS -traditional-cpp

5. Build % ./configure --host=powerpc-apple-rhapsody10.0 % make

6. Install % su root # make install (ignore "rename libIDL-0.6.sl.4.4 to libIDL.sl: No such file or directory") # exit % cd ..

 

Warning:

At this point we have created a version of libIDL that will not correctly generate constants in header files. Mozilla will not build. Check the newsgroups for how we are going to solve this or a workaround.

Building mozilla-source-M10

http://www.mozilla.org/

1. Download

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/m10/src/mozilla-source-M10.tar.gz

2. Extract

% gzip -d -c mozilla-source-M10.tar.gz | tar xvf -

% cd mozilla/

3. Workaround for <math.h> bug

Radar #2381837: "symbol "exception" defined in both <new.h> and <math.h>"

% su root

# patch -p0 < ../math_h.patch

# exit

4. Patch Mozilla for Mac OS X

% patch -p1 < ../macosx-mozilla-M10.patch

(this step isn't really necessary once we fix the bug in libIDL)

5. Install PowerPlant header files, required by Carbon 'widget'

% cp your_PowerPlant_folder/PP_Macros.h widget/src/mac/

% cp your_PowerPlant_folder/PP_Messages.h widget/src/mac/

% cp your_PowerPlant_folder/PP_Types.h widget/src/mac/

6. Build, Pass 1

% ./configure --host=powerpc-apple-rhapsody10.0 --disable-tests

% make

(will stop on "duplicate case value `nsIPref::ePrefInt'" error)

7. Workaround for IDL compiler bug

The IDL compiler is broken. When an IDL file says "const long foo = 1234", the generated header file says "enum { foo = 0 }". The constant has the value 0, which is incorrect.

% patch -p1 < ../macosx-mozillaM10-headers.patch

Now we need to rebuild part of xpcom...

% cd xpcom/components/

% rm *.o

(don't 'make clean', or else you'll wipe out patched headers)

% make

% cd ../build/

(now you're in mozilla/xpcom/build/)

% make

% cd ../../

(back to top-level directory)

8. Build, Pass 2

% make

(will stop in 'widget', being unable to find library gfx_macDYLIB)

9. Rebuild 'gfx' as a dylib

Here's the deal: 'gfx' should be a Mach-O dynamic library. However, something somewhere attempts to load in 'gfx' manually. You end up with the error "nsNativeComponentLoader: GetFactory(libgfx_mac.dylib) Load FAILED with error: Undefined error: 0", because all Mozilla components are assumed to be Mach-O bundle files, not Mach-O dynamic library files. The workaround is to build 'gfx' first as a bundle file, to satisfy whatever part of Mozilla is trying to load it in, then rebuild it as a dylib under a different name, so that 'widget' will be able to link against it later. The result is "gfx_mac.dylib", which is a bundle, and "gfx_macDYLIB.dylib", which is an actual dylib. Not pretty, but it'll do for now.

% cd gfx/src/mac

% emacs Makefile

* Comment out the line "DSO_LDOPTS = -bundle"

* Change the LIBRARY_NAME to "gfx_macDYLIB"

% make

% cd ../../../

(back to top-level directory)

10. Build, Pass 3

% make

(will stop in 'editor', which is ok)

11. Build the viewer app

% cd webshell/tests/viewer/

% make

% cd ../../../

(back to top-level directory)

12. Workaround for current NSPR config

% cd dist/bin

% ln -s . Rhapsody10.0_DBG.OBJ

13. Run

% ./viewer