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Building Mozilla on Unix platforms</H1>
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Daniel Nunes, <TT><A HREF="mailto:leaf@netscape.com">leaf@netscape.com</A></TT></H2>
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v 1.1, June 1998
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<P>
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<HR><I>How to build Mozilla on a Unix System.</I>
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<HR>
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<H2>1. <A HREF="#s1">Introduction</A></H2>
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<H2>2. <A HREF="#s2">Building Mozilla</A></H2>
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<LI>
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<A HREF="#ss2.1">2.1 Get the Code </A></LI>
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<LI>
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<A HREF="#ss2.2">2.2 Requirements</A></LI>
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<A HREF="#ss2.3">2.3 Set up the Build Environment</A></LI>
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<A HREF="#ss2.4">2.4 Build the Lizard </A></LI>
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<LI>
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<A HREF="#ss2.5">2.5 Run the Lizard </A></LI>
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</UL>
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<H2>3. <A HREF="#s3"> Common Problems </A></H2>
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<HR>
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<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Introduction</A></H2>
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What this document is: A guide to building the Mozilla application.
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<BR>
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This includes:
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<OL>
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<LI> A listing of the development tools you will need to build Mozilla. </LI>
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<LI> A list of environment variables you will need to set before building. </LI>
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</OL>
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<P>
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If you're looking for documentation on developing features or fixing bugs,
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the Mozilla
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<A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org/docs/tplist/tplist.html">Technical Documents
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</A> or <A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org/library.html"> Library </A>
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are probably what you're looking for.
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<P>
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<HR>
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<H2><A NAME="s2">2. Building Mozilla </A></H2>
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<P>
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<UL>Each of the following subsections describes, or gives references to
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descriptions of, the steps necessary to build Mozilla.
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</UL>
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.1">2.1 Get the Code</A></H2>
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<P>
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<UL>
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There are two principal ways of getting the code,
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<A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org/download.html"> ftp</A> and
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<A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html"> CVS</A>.
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CVS will provide the most current code for building, but is
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slower than ftp. Ftp drops are generally produced once per month,
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and are known to compile.
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</UL>
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.2">2.2 Requirements</A></H2>
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The following should be installed:
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<LI>Motif 1.2
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<LI>The native C/C++ compiler (or GNU C/C++ compiler 2.7.2 in lieu of the
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native compiler)
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<LI>GNU make 3.74 or better
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<LI>Perl (or, if you have no Perl, then set <CODE>PERL=/bin/echo</CODE>)
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</UL>
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Your hardware should be equal to, or better than:
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<UL>
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32 MB RAM, 128 MB swap (64 MB RAM recommended)
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</UL>
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</UL>
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.3">2.3 Setup the Build Environment</A></H2>
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The following environment variables need to be set:
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<CODE>
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<PRE>
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MOZILLA_CLIENT=1
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MOZ_MEDIUM=1
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NO_MDUPDATE=1
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</PRE>
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</CODE>
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Optionally, you can set <CODE>BUILD_OPT=1</CODE> if you don't want a debug
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build.
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<P>
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If your Motif libraries are installed in a non-standard place, you can tell
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the Mozilla makefiles where to look by setting
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<CODE>MOZILLA_MOTIF_SEARCH_PATH</CODE> to point to the directory in which
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your Motif installation resides.
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<P>
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Environment variables are set by the shell, and there are two common ways
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of setting them. <BR>
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Type <CODE>setenv VARIABLE value</CODE> or <CODE>export VARIABLE=value</CODE>.
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<P>
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</UL>
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.4">2.4 Run the build </A></H2>
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<UL>
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Change to the directory you copied the source into (for example,
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<CODE>cd /builds</CODE>). If this directory was empty before you
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installed the source, there should be two directories here:
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<CODE>README</CODE> and <CODE>mozilla</CODE>.
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<CODE>
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<PRE>
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cd mozilla
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gmake
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</PRE>
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</CODE>
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</UL>
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.5">2.5 After the build </A></H2>
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<UL>
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You may notice that if you try running mozilla-export right after the build,
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you'll run into a problem. You need to set <CODE>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</CODE> to
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<CODE>
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${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/PATH_TO_SOURCE/mozilla/dist/Linux2.0.32_x86_OPT.OBJ/bin
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</CODE> (where <CODE>PATH_TO_SOURCE</CODE> is the full path to your source
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tree) before the dynamically linked binary will run. <BR><BR>
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This varies by platform:<br>
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<UL>
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<LI>On HP-UX, the equivalent environment variable is <CODE>SHLIB_PATH</CODE>.
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<LI>On AIX, the equivalent environment variable is <CODE>LIBPATH</CODE>.
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</UL>
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</UL>
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<HR>
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<H2><A NAME="s3">3. Common Sticking Points</A></H2>
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<LI>My linker dies with this error: undefined reference to `_Xsetlocale'
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<UL>If this error occurs, you might have to recompile libX11.so
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with the -DX_LOCALE flag (thanks to Scott Lampert,
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<A HREF="mailto:fortunato@heavymetal.org">fortunato@heavymetal.org</A>).
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