News-dev.tech.xpcom-10/05/2006

Summary: [mozilla.dev.tech.xpcom mozilla.dev.tech.xpcom] - Sept 30- Oct 5, 2006

Announcements

• Build a xpcom component on Mac OS X

• Benjamin Smedberg confirmed that this tutorial http://www.iosart.com/firefox/xpcom/ is misleading as it uses the standalone glue (-DXPCOM_GLUE) for components, which is not recommended.

• Developers should use this sample instead: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XPCOM_Glue

Discussions

• Dynamic load overlay

• A short discussion about the possibilities of loading and unloading xul overlay runtime

• Reading binary data from file

• Discusses about the code to read binary data from file

• How to build xpcom component on Mac OS X

• Discusses about the Make file code used to build xpcom components on Mac OS X successfully

Meetings

None during this week.