> I'm sure that's the case. It sounds like the Mozilla build system isn't
> autoconf/automake based, so all bets are off at that point, and that's
I think there's a sub-project somewhere to "make it so". I'd like to know
more about autoconf/make - can you suggest a URL?
> anybody these days, and that gets you all GNU build tools, giving you a
> very powerful common base to start from. And you can cross-compile
> relatively painlessly to boot.
Agreed! If I was having a small grumble, it was just because I had to
reorganise a hard drive to install something quite big that I had no other
need for (other than compiling Mozilla). Never mind, done now.
> Something seriously needs to be done in this area in the entire
> industry, some form of common "project definition file". Dreaming I
Definately agreed!
Cheers,
Chris.
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> Chris Melville wrote:
> >
> > > Cygwin gets you all the GNU build tools, in particular make, automake,
> > > autoconf, etc, not to forget gcc. I'd bet a small sum that at this
> > > point you could even dispense with VC++ and use gcc/mingw instead.
> > >
> > > But only a small sum ;-).
> >
> > I'm sure I've seen folk asking "can I use GCC to build Moz on Win32" in
> > other forums, the standard answer being "many have tried, none have
> > succeeded".
> >
>
> I'm sure that's the case. It sounds like the Mozilla build system isn't
> autoconf/automake based, so all bets are off at that point, and that's
> probably the main problem. Mingw has had some C++ issues until recently
> that I'm sure haven't helped matters either (well, wait, they were
> primarily STL issues...).
>
> > Personally speaking, if I were starting off a big open-platform project
I'd
> > design the build environment first, produce simple tools for it then
make
> > sure that each supported platform got a native version of them (no
foreign
> > shells, emulators, simulators, perambulators, etc).
>
> Agreed, but you end up reinventing the wheel again (if I'm reading you
> right). Installing Cygwin is a completely painless procedure for
> anybody these days, and that gets you all GNU build tools, giving you a
> very powerful common base to start from. And you can cross-compile
> relatively painlessly to boot.
>
> > Then there'd be a
> > wrapper project for each of the major IDEs. This can be quite a big job
in
> > itself, but it sure pays back later.
> >
>
> Something seriously needs to be done in this area in the entire
> industry, some form of common "project definition file". Dreaming I
> know, hell we don't even have common shells or makefile syntax, but at
> least the concepts of those are vaguely similar across tools...
>
> > Don't wish to sound critical of the Moz build environment though, I am
quite
> > impressed that it works at all given all the bits and peices needed,
most of
> > which are foreign to Win32 (my work platform).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chris.
