Has anyone successfully ported MOZILLA with GTK-DirectFB as backend
???..... I am trying to do it but my compilation is failing after
around 60% . It is giving a lot of problems which i would like to
share.

Firstly I would like to tell about my system :

1. TI Davinci (arm926ejs + DM6446) ----- target
2. i386 ----- host
3. armv5t ----- toolchain
4. Montavista Linux-2.6.10 ------ OS

I have successfully ported GTK and DirectFB and i am able to run the
applications without any problem.

Problems faced while building Mozilla :

1. Cross Compilation is giving a hell of a problem as the binaries
generated for arm are required to build mozilla further. So obviously i
get errors like "FILE IN WRONG FORMAT ".......Somehow its a lil silly
becoz it totally nullifies the  need of Cross-Compilation.......I would
love to get some tips on this .

2. To overcome this issue , I got the gnu make on my target system and
started Compiling Mozilla on arm itself. Believe me its a very
irritating idea coz it takes around 2.5 hrs to build around 50%
(obviously the processor speed is a big drawback-----300MHz). My work
was going on well until i got messed up with some java utilities which
needed "java, javac, javah, jar " tools. I tried to find the Source for
JDK which i had planned to cross compile for arm but i was not able to
get it on the net freely.........(If someone can share,it will be a big
help). The only thing that was close to solving my problem was JDK
built for arm4. But somehow it didn't work as for my system i need arm5
built.

So here I am, totally stuck up and that too on the verge of getting a
gr8 result.

I need some help and if that can be provided by some of you experts it
will be a big boost. As for any questions on GTK or DirectFB
......anyone and everyone is most Welcome.

Thanks 
Abhinav Pathak

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