Mobile/Build

Below are instructions on building Fennec for various platforms.

Linux

There are many flavors of linux, below are the ones that we are aware of active interest in.

Android

Coming soon...

Maemo (Nokia N800/N810)

• status
  • trunk
    • TestGtkEmbed builds and runs on both x86 and ARMEL targets (in scratchbox)
    • Minefield (i.e. ./firefox) runs in x86 target (again, in scratchbox)
    • Minefield hangs in scratchbox ARMEL target.
    • Minefield runs on N800 with OS2008
• build instructions
  • Trunk build instructions for Maemo
  • Build notes for Qt
• Instructions to setup USB networking, NFS and OProfile on N800

DirectFB based Platforms

• Status
  • DFB Porting approach and build instructions

xulrunner and desktop builds

The Fennec exists as a xul app built on top of xulrunner. In that way, it is architecture independent. You can find instructions for building Fennec here: Mobile/Build/Fennec, which are dependent on having a working xulrunner for your target.

Electrolysis (e10s)

See Mobile/e10s for instructions on checking out and building the mobile-e10s branch.

Windows Mobile

• See Mobile/Build/Windows_Mobile_Build_Instructions_Quick
• build instructions
  • After installing standard windows build prerequisites, install:
• Windows Mobile 6 Professional [1]
• Check out its prerequisites.

Other platforms

See Mobile/Platforms