Difference between revisions of "Shining Some Light on the Mozilla Build System"

Revision as of 11:00, 18 September 2007

Ted Mielczarek - ted@mielczarek.org
- Build system peer, Breakpad stuff, etc
Building software
It's all about scope
- Three major platforms supported, multiple other platforms usable
- Multiple products in CVS
- Thousands of Makefiles
Basic tools - autoconf + GNU Make
Autoconf - managing differences between platforms and selecting build options
Make - following rules to build things based on changed files
Your build experiences
Deconstructing mozconfig
- Sorting through configure.in
What the heck is client.mk for?
- Fancy things you can do
Looking at some Makefiles
- Plumbing the depths of rules.mk

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 ** Multiple products in CVS
 ** Thousands of Makefiles
+* Basic tools - [http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ autoconf] + [http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ GNU Make]
+* Autoconf - managing differences between platforms and selecting build options
+* Make - following rules to build things based on changed files
+* Your build experiences
+* Deconstructing [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Configuring_Build_Options mozconfig]
+** Sorting through [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/configure.in configure.in]
+* What the heck is [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/client.mk client.mk] for?
+** Fancy things you can do
+* Looking at some Makefiles
+** Plumbing the depths of [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/config/rules.mk rules.mk]