Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
Hi folks,
For those of you who follow my Winelib quest, one of the most ambitious projects is compiling Mozilla under Wine. Needless to say, this would be quite something to accomplish, and would provide Wine with a formidable test for it's headers, and it's tools (wine{build,gcc,wrap), wrc).
The goal of course is to port the entire beast with very little changes. For anyone who looked at the source, it should be clear that this is the only way it can happen. If it requires massive work, I'm just not going to do it.
To accomplish this task, Mozilla needs to build first on mingw. Unfortunately, Mozilla still requires MSVC to compile on Windows. There is an ongoing effort that is tracked in bug #134113: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134113
I will be lending those guys a hand with the port. Mostly the work seems to be done, they just need a gentle nudge to get it in the tree (I hope :)).
As always, your comments and suggestions are highly appreciated.
Hi
I've read the bug, downloaded the source, trying to compile it on my Windows box... Applied the patches (straight-code.patch and rest.patch). But I'm not sure what the standard way of trying this out is Particularly should I be using the mozilla tools in the path, should I put them before or after msys/mingw/cygwin, will they cause problems? (Basically if they're first in the path then it says the host type is i586-pc-msvc, but if not, then it picks up i686-mingw or cygwin etc).
David