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

Revision as of 06:55, 20 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
Managing the chaos
- Tinderbox
- LXR
Basic build tools
- autoconf - managing differences between platforms and selecting build options
- GNU Make - following rules to build things based on changed files
Your build experiences
Cross-platform builds -- what's different on different platforms?
- VMs to the rescue
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
The future of the build system
- Buildbot
- Giving the build system a facelift
Breakpad and Crash Reporting

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 ** Multiple products in CVS
 ** Thousands of Makefiles
-* Basic tools
+* Managing the chaos
+** [http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Firefox Tinderbox]
+** [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ LXR]
+* Basic build tools
 ** [http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ autoconf] - managing differences between platforms and selecting build options
 ** [http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ GNU Make] - following rules to build things based on changed files
-** Tinderbox
 * Your build experiences
 * Cross-platform builds -- what's different on different platforms?
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 * Looking at some Makefiles
 ** Plumbing the depths of [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/config/rules.mk rules.mk]
-* The future of the build system: Buildbot
+* The future of the build system
+** Buildbot
+** [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Build:Configure_System_Rewrite Giving the build system a facelift]
 * Breakpad and Crash Reporting