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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.

Also 10.4 doesn't come with Python, which Mercurial needs.

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. Do not forget you need new binutils too. 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!