Mobile/Symbian/Build

Overview

Symbian OS uses a series of Perl scripts and proprietary tools for building application projects. While this has some advantages when building different targets and setting meta data such as application ID, it however can not fit into Mozilla technology philosophy. Because of the ease portability of Mozilla platform building tools, mainly GNU make and autoconf, we could use these tools to build our Mozilla products with Symbian OS SDK in Windows operating system. The only effort we should take is patching the configure.in scripts and related Makefile.in and rules.mk project files.

Building

Prerequisites

• Windows XP or compatible
• S60 SDK 3rd Edition FP1
• Prerequisites for S60 SDK: Active Perl EXACTLY V5.6.1.638, no earlier no later and JRE v1.5 (JRE is not required)
• Open C Plugin for S60 SDK
• Mozilla-build v1.3
• Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition

Procedures

• Install all prerequisites, I recommend installing everything on Drive C, default path.
• Add paths to environment variable $PATH, some of them are added by tools installation:
  • c:\mingw\bin (MUST be the first, or at least earlier than any Symbian build tool chain related path)
  • c:\program files\csl arm toolchain\bin (this should be added by GCCE tools installation)
  • c:\symbian\9.2\s60_3rd_fp1\epoc32\tools (MUST place this earlier than "c:\program files\common\symbian\tools" which is added by SDK installation)
  • c:\mozilla-build\svn-win32-1.4.2\bin
  • c:\mozilla-build\moztools\bin
• Add environment variables:

 SYMBIAN_SDK_PATH = /c/symbian/9.2/S60_3rd_FP1/
 ACTIVE_PERL = /c/perl/bin/perl.exe
 CC_INSTALL_PATH = /c/program\ files/CSL\ ARM\ Toolchain/

• Fix a header file bug: in $EPOCROOT/Epoc32/include/e32def.h, change:

 static const char* const KSuppressPlatSecDiagnostic =
   KSuppressPlatSecDiagnosticMagicValue;

into

 #if defined(__cplusplus) 
 static const char* const KSuppressPlatSecDiagnostic =
   KSuppressPlatSecDiagnosticMagicValue; 
 #endif

• Deal with header files

c:
cd \symbian\9.2\s60_3rd_fp1\epoc32\include
move prtypes.h prtypes.h.orig
cd variant
copy Symbian_OS_v9.2.hrh Symbian_OS.hrh

• Checkout source from google code
  

 svn checkout http://mozilla-symbian.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ mozilla-symbian

• Start msys by invoking c:\mozilla-build\msys\msys.bat, assuming your source is checked out at c:\mozilla-symbian then:

For device(GCCE) build:

 cd /c/
 mkdir gobj
 cd gobj
 ../mozilla-symbian/nsprpub/configure --target=arm-none-symbianelf
 --enable-symbian-target=GCCE --disable-debug
 make
 cd pr/tests
 make

For emulator(WINSCW) build:

 cd /c/
 mkdir wobj
 cd wobj
 ../mozilla-symbian/nsprpub/configure --target=arm-none-symbianelf
 --enable-symbian-target=WINSCW
 make
 cd pr/tests
 make

More

The procedures above are also verified on S60 SDK 3rd Edition MR.

Completed

• NSPR has been patched already. See detail in Bug 442706.

In process

• NSS patching is in process now.

Planned

• Cairo porting is in progress