Hi all,
I'd like to share with you progress on gecko64. First of all, I think that it was never said in public, although I've been asked about it: there won't be gecko64 for 1.2 release. I think we will have Gecko release in the second half of this year it will support 64-bit, but it's not yet clear when exactly. We may try to do it near the next Firefox release, but time will show how it will work.
However, it doesn't mean that nothing is going on around Wine Gecko. I've recently switched to mingw-w64 for 32-bit builds. I've very pleased with it. They are far better in co-operation, don't have senseless politics like mingw and their quality of headers and libraries is far better. We won't need to maintain fixes to build envinonment anymore. (I've been even talking about better co-operation between our projects, but that's OT here and I will report progress when there will be more to say). We're much nearer to allow packagers to build their own Gecko now.
Back to gecko64, I've completed the first step. I have a working 64-bit Firefox crosscompiled with mingw-w64. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570342 for details. It starts and runs on Windows. Now I wait for patches to be committed to Mozilla. It may take awhile :/ Before we may think about support for gecko64 in MSHTML, we have to fix its issues in Wine. Firefox is a good Gecko test and it needs to be fixed first. Unfortunately it currently doesn't even start. I've put a build on server in case anyone would like to try it: http://gerwazy.lo3.wroc.pl/~jcaban/wine/firefox-mingw-w64.tar.bz2 Volunteers on working on Wine side are very welcomed. There are also some other tests from Mozilla code. Note that before fixing any more sophisticated bug, it's worth to make sure on Windows, that the bug is in Wine, not in the build. All I verified is that Firefox should start and basic functionality works (and doesn't work on Wine).
Any comments and suggestions are welcomed.
Cheers, Jacek