In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gervase Markham
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the barrier to entry is very high, especially on Windows - where you
> need MSVC++.
Or especially on the Mac.
On Mac OS Classic, one needs CodeWarrior 5. CodeWarrior is expensive,
*and* one has to ask Metrowerks to provide the old version. (The latest
version is 7.)
To build the Carbon version, one has to make a hybrid of CodeWarrior 5
and 6. Mozilla can't be built with Apple's developer tools.
Ability to build with Apple's tools on Mac OS X is
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75653
Ability to build with CodeWarrior 7 is
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98349
> A great deal of the barrier to contribution comes with pulling 270Mb of
> source
Related bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57282 (Filed
after I realized I can't build on Solaris due to the source size.)
> Cygwin and Activestate Perl both have graphical installers for Windows,
> so should not be to hard to get running. Apart from the script, you have
> all you need on Linux. I have no clue about Mac.
Mac OS X ships with Perl, CVS and diff. The three are also available as
MPW tools for Classic. (However, few people are aware of them being
available for Classic.)
> How would a script convert the paths in the chrome dir to paths in the
> code tree?
How about a script for pulling only the chrome files from CVS and
another script for building only the chrome jars?
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Henri Sivonen
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