Re: Building GNU IceCat and Xulrunner

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> writes:

> after I do make install I get a bin/icecat symbolic link to the proper
> shell script under lib/icecat-version/.

Yes, building just the browser works fine.

> I never tried to build libxul before and after use it for IceCat.  If it
> is causing troubles I will take a deeper look.
>
> How do you build it?

First I build Xulrunner, with "--enable-application=xulrunner
--enable-libxul --disable-javaxpcom" and a few other mostly irrelevant
options.  Then I build IceCat with "--enable-application=browser
--with-libxul-sdk=/path/to/xulrunner".

Note that I apply the attached patch to work around a defect in
`configure' that would tell the linker to look for `libxpcom_core' while
this library is actually part of `libxpcom'.

Thanks,
Ludo'.

XulRunner doesn't provide `libxpcom_core' separately (it's apparently
included in `libxpcom.so'), so applications should not link against it.

--- icecat-3.0.3-g1/configure   2008-09-29 20:13:26.000000000 +0200
+++ icecat-3.0.3-g1/configure   2008-11-13 00:38:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -5016,7 +5016,7 @@ MOZ_PNG_CFLAGS=
 MOZ_PNG_LIBS='$(call EXPAND_LIBNAME_PATH,mozpng,$(DEPTH)/modules/libimg/png)'
 
 MOZ_JS_LIBS='-L$(LIBXUL_DIST)/bin -lmozjs'
-DYNAMIC_XPCOM_LIBS='-L$(LIBXUL_DIST)/bin -lxpcom -lxpcom_core'
+DYNAMIC_XPCOM_LIBS='-L$(LIBXUL_DIST)/bin -lxpcom'
 MOZ_FIX_LINK_PATHS='-Wl,-rpath-link,$(LIBXUL_DIST)/bin'
 XPCOM_FROZEN_LDOPTS='-L$(LIBXUL_DIST)/bin -lxpcom'
 LIBXUL_LIBS='$(XPCOM_FROZEN_LDOPTS) -lxul'