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General Building

Prerequisites

Before you can build Weave, you'll need a few tools:

1. A C compiler.

2. If you're on Windows, you'll need cygwin.

3. If you want to commit changes to Weave's source code, you'll need a Mercurial client, available here.

4. The Gecko SDK, available here.

Retrieving the Source

Retrieve the Weave source code from the Mozilla Mercurial source repository using the following command:

 hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/weave

Alternatively, you can also retrieve the latest tarball of the source from:

 http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/weave/index.cgi/archive/tip.tar.gz

Building

1. Set the MOZSDKDIR environment variable to the location of your Gecko SDK, e.g.:

 export MOZSDKDIR=/path/to/gecko/sdk

2. Run the make command in the root directory of the Weave checkout, e.g.:

 make

This should build Weave and run its unit tests.

Building Weave 0.20 on MacOSX for PPC

Note: The easiest way is to build is to get 10.5 and the latest XCode for it. 10.4's XCode's ld does not accept the -exported_symbol argument (without modification of the makefile). Read the [Note]

Prerequisites

1. Xcode (included on the 10.5 Leopard DVD, or can be downloaded from Apple Developer Connection).

2. Mercurial so you can generate a buildid.

3. MacPorts You need to get libidl and glib1 from it.

4. XUL-runner from the source because xpidl is not included with the SDK binaries (at least for PPC).

Setup and Configuration of the Prerequisites

1. Mercurial: make local && ./hg version (or install via MacPorts with sudo port install mercurial)

2. MacPorts:

a. Install MacPorts.
b. sudo port install glib1 libidl

3. XUL-runner:

./configure --with-glib-prefix=/opt/local --with-libIDL-prefix=/opt/local --enable-application=browser
make -C config
make -C nsprpub
make -C xpcom/typelib

Adding variables to .profile

1. Open Terminal application

2. use vi/vim or your favourite editor open .profile in your directory

3. Add these variables to your .profile

export MOZSDKDIR=/opt/local/mozilla/ #from section 3 above
export TOPSRCDIR=<path to weave's source>
export NATIVE_TOPSRCDIR=<path to weave's source>
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:<path to MOZSDKDIR's BIN directory>

4. Restart your terminal(s).

Getting the source, modification and build (extra change for 0.20)

The source for Weave is here

For 0.20 you need to make just one modification in src/Makefile Line 79 change the line to:

 ifeq ($(machine), Power Macintosh) 

Remember to save!

then run make in the weave directory. Compilation should proceed correctly and the add on will be built.

References

1. A thread where I have been helping Slothrop etc to compile for their PPC.

2. A good starting point to get XPIDL working.

10.4 Note

Weave will not compile out of the box on 10.4.

The alternatives 1. Upgrade / change the gcc via macports. 10.4 uses gcc 4.0.1. You can search for later versions via macports search gcc command. However remember to also get and run gcc_select so you can change the default version (back and forth).

Also before you build, make sure you run the apps eg cc or ld with the -v flag, so you are clear about the app version you are running.

or 2. Upgrade to 10.5

Good luck!