View source for Dtolj Assingment 1

= Status =
Complete
= Build Machine =
* Intel Pentium 4 2Ghz
* 512MB RAM
* Ubuntu Dapper Drake on 5GB partition with 500MB swap space
= Needed Packages =
* build-essential
* libIDL-dev0.8
* cvs
* g++4.0
* gcc4.0
* make8.0
* libgtk2.0-dev
= Build Process =
1. This code will checkout client.mk into ./mozilla from the Bon Echo branch. Go to that directory and the last command will checkout the browser project. This step may take a while depending on your internet speed.
 $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co -r MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH mozilla/client.mk
 $ cd mozilla
 $ make -f client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
2. Before you can build you need to have a .mozconfig file in your ./mozilla directory. I have created this one which builds firefox with shared libraries, no optimization and I also enabled debugging. I also used gtk2 because I have version 0.8 of libIDL. By default the build will use gtk1.
 . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
 mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/ff-static
 mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
 ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
 ac_add_options --disable-static
 ac_add_options --enable-shared
 ac_add_options --disable-tests
 ac_add_options --disable-optimize
 ac_add_options --enable-debug
 ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
 ac_add_options --disable-installer
3. Finally I fired the build command to compile firefox.
 make -f client.mk build

= Problems =
Some of the problems relate to build requirements. By default Ubuntu doesn't come with programmer packages. After solving the package requirements I had unexpected error message long in the build. My next reaction was go on IRC and ask some experts. 
= Solution =
I talked to cf2 at #firefox but he couldn't help me much, he pointed me in the same direction I came from, mainly config stuff. viper and cbguy1 told me what their .mozconfig looked like, I took their advise and enabled debug option and disable installer. Eric also told me when running newly built firefox I should close any other instances of firefox so that they don't conflict. The build was now complete.

= ScreenShot =
* Gimp File->aquire->screenshot
[[Image: bonecho.jpg]]

= Reference =
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Build_Documentation Mozilla Build Documentation]