User:Backinblakk

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Name: Lukas Blakk
IRC: lsblakk (or occasionally as backinblakk)
Email: lsblakk [at] learn [dot] senecac [dot] ca
Web: backinblakk(videoblog)

Fourth semester BSD student. Currently on a steep learning curve. I am a returning student and thus, hadn't been in school for 11 years. Prior to this I have worked many jobs including (but not limited to) 7-11 clerk, Subway sandwich artist, nanny, cook, brunch chef, LCBO temp, delivering NOW Magazine, and many other odd jobs.

Even though my name is Lukas, I am in fact female. It is important that I tell you that because otherwise you might not know and so now you do - let's move on.

I'm most interested in web development, film/video - making, editing, videoblogging. I also knit...to give my eyes a break from computer screens. I'd like to learn more about graphic design to complement my interest in web development and design.

Outside of the Seneca @ York universe, I run with my dog and am training for a triathlon.

Inside the S@Y universe I am trying to take more steps to be involved. This is what brought me to here.

Current Project

• CSS Guide - porting to MDC CSS Reference

Building Firefox

On the PC

I have yet to complete a build on the PC.

Problems

When I installed cygwin, I left the line endings as UNIX type (recommended) - and when I tried to check out I got the following error:

The error (1)

  C:\proj\mozilla>make -f client.mk checkout
  cvs checkout: warning: failed to open /home/Lukas/.cvspass for reading: No such
  file or directory
  /cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/.mozconfig: line 2: /cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/browser/co
  : No such file or directory
  client.mk:517: /cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/.mozconfig.mk: No such file or directory
  make: *** No rule to make target `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/.mozconfig.mk'.  Stop
  . 

The solution (1)

  in C:\proj\mozilla 
  dos2unix .mozconfig

  This cleared everything up, and then I was able to begin downloading the source code.

The error (2)

  SO, after an hour and a half of compiling, I get this at the end:

  nsFieldSetFrame.cpp
  nsFileControlFrame.cpp
  Building deps for /cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/layout/forms/nsFileControlFrame.cpp
  make[5]: *** [nsFileControlFrame.obj] Error 5
  make[5]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/firefox-objdir/layout/forms
  '
  make[4]: *** [libs] Error 2
  make[4]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/firefox-objdir/layout'
  make[3]: *** [libs_tier_gecko] Error 2
  make[3]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/firefox-objdir'
  make[2]: *** [tier_gecko] Error 2
  make[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/firefox-objdir'
  make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/firefox-objdir'
  make: *** [build] Error 2

The solution (2)

  To be continued...

On the Mac

Okay, so I'm on a Power PC Mac G5 Dual 2 GHz running OS X 10.4.7 (I can't update to 10.4.8 because it messes up the networked printer).

Following the instructions on Mac OS X Build Prerequisites was tremendously useful. Xcode installers were already on the system and downloading DarwinPorts was a speedy.

Once DarwinPorts was installed, I installed libIDL and GLib:

$ sudo port sync
$ sudo port install libidl

Following that I installed autoconf:

$ sudo port install autoconf213

I also changed my compiler:

$ sudo gcc_select 3.3

At this point, I tried to check out the source code, but I hadn't followed the directions closely enough, and didn't have a .mozconfig file set up and so I went back to the drawing board.

I set up a .mozconfig file based on the default and this is what it ended up being (includes the use of objdir based on this page:

  1 # This file specifies the build flags for Firefox.  You can use it by adding:
  2 #  . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
  3 # to the top of your mozconfig file.
  4 
  5 . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
  6 mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
  7 ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
  8 mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-@CONFIG_GUESS@

Finally, I was able to check out the source code (once I remembered to be in the mozilla directory) using make:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co mozilla/browser/config/mozconfig
$ cd mozilla
$ make -f client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser

More time passes...then it's time to build:

$ make -f client.mk build

Hours go by before I get the message: "make[4]: `tools/test-harness/Makefile' is up to date."

This is the moment I know you've been waiting for. With baited breath, I go into obj-powerpc-apple-darwin8.70/dist/Minefield.app, when I am told upon double clicking that I must close the 15 Firefox tabs before I can open it.

Ta-da: Proof

Links

This is amazing documentation:

• Liz_Chak_Assignment_1
• David Humphrey's Guide to Building Firefox on Win32 using Visual Studio .NET 2005

And also to auenf2 on irc://irc.mozilla.org/#firefox for figuring out that it was the line endings preventing me from a seamless build.