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Building Mozilla on Solaris

Using the Sun Workshop 4.2 Compiler

Setting up the environment

  • These instructions are for an Ultra class machine running Solaris 7
  • Set your PATH variable to contain atleast these directories


    • set path = (  .                                  \
                      /usr/ccs/bin                  \
                      /usr/ucb                       \
                      /usr/bin                        \
                      /etc                              \
                      /usr/lib                         \
                      /usr/etc                        \
                      /usr/openwin/bin          \
                      /usr/dt/bin                   \
                      /usr/sbin)

    You should also have the path to the Sun Workshop 4.2 on your system in your PATH environment variable.

    Note: You might need to include other directories or change some here depending upon your local Solaris installation.
     

  • Set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to something like

    • setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/openwin/lib
     

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Building Glib

  • Glib is the library used by the Gtk+ toolkit within mozilla. Glib is a C utility library that provides routines for creating and manipulating common data structures. Download the source distribution from http://www.gtk.org/  (1.2.2 or higher) into /MyWorkspace/glib-1.2.*
  • gunzip and untar the distribution
  • In /MyWorkspace/glib-1.2.*
      •  
      % ./configure --prefix=/MyWorkspace/glib
      % make
      % make install
       
  • Add the entry /MyWorkspace/glib/bin to your PATH
  • Add the entry /MyWorkspace/glib/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Building Gtk+

  • Gtk+ is the Gimp ToolKit which is used by Mozilla. It contains Gdk, the Gimp Drawing Kit, which is an abstraction of the low-level X Window system libs. Download the source distribution from http://www.gtk.org/   (same version as glib) into /MyWorkspace/gtk+-1.2.*
  • gunzip and untar the distribution
  • In /MyWorkspace/gtk+-1.2.*
      •  
      % ./configure --prefix=/MyWorkspace/gtk
      % make
      % make install
  • Add the entry /MyWorkspace/gtk/bin to your PATH
  • Add the entry /MyWorkspace/gtk/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
      •  

Building libIDL

  • LibIDL is used by mozilla to compile the XPCOM IDL files. Download source distribution from http://atv.ne.mediaone.net/libIDL/  (version 0.6.3 or above) into /MyWorkspace/libIDL-0.6.*
  • gunzip and untar the distribution
  • In /MyWorkspace/libIDL-0.6.*
      •  
      % ./configure --prefix=/MyWorkspace/libIDL
      % make
      % make install
       
  • Add the entry /MyWorkspace/libIDL/bin to your PATH
  • Add the entry /MyWorkspace/libIDL/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Building Mozilla

  • add the directory which contains gmake to your PATH. If you dont have gmake, you can get it from http://www.gnu.org
  • Download and unpack the 20Mb gzipped tarball from http://www.mozilla.org/download-mozilla.html  into /MyWorkspace/mozilla
  • In /MyWorkspace/mozilla
      •  
      % ./configure
      % gmake
       
  • Add the entry /MyWorkspace/mozilla/dist/bin to your PATH
  • Add the entry /MyWorkspace/mozilla/dist/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH

 
 
 

Using the Gnu gcc Compiler

    The Build Instructions using the GNU gcc compiler are the same with the follwing 2 exceptions:
     
    • The path to the gnu tools including egcs should be included in your PATH variable. You can get these from http://gcc.gnu.org
    • Your PATH variable should contain the GNU tools directory listing before the  Workshop tools directory listing.


    Use gmake for building the Glib, Gtk+ and libIDL packages and then build mozilla as above.



Ashu Kulkarni