Mobile/Build/Fennec

Building Fennec and Xulrunner

pull the code from hg

hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central
cd mozilla-central
hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser mobile

Your mozconfig should look like this:

# cs2007q3 gcc 4.2 is busted, we think, and doesn't
# look in the expected places. --dougt.
# $PWD/... was added due to bug 463076
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath-link,$PWD/dist/bin/:/usr/lib:/lib"

# Options for client.mk.
mk_add_options MOZ_BUILD_PROJECTS="xulrunner mobile"
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/../mobilebase

# Global options
#ac_add_options --enable-debug
#ac_add_options --disable-optimize

# XULRunner options
ac_add_app_options xulrunner --enable-application=xulrunner
ac_add_app_options xulrunner --disable-javaxpcom

# Enabling --with-arm-kuser implies Linux on ARM and enables kernel
# optimizations for that platform
ac_add_app_options xulrunner --with-arm-kuser

# Disabling tests due to bug 454881
ac_add_options --disable-tests

# mobile options
ac_add_app_options mobile --enable-application=mobile
ac_add_app_options mobile --with-libxul-sdk=../xulrunner/dist

make sure you have libIDL:

If building for Maemo in Scratchbox, follow the instructions from the Maemo Build page, and remember to set your PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

then build:

make -f client.mk build

Running Fennec on Maemo

If you did the above in a Maemo Scratchbox for the CHINOOK_ARMEL target, you can run the build on the N800/N810 device.

Create a Fennec tarball:

cd ../mobilebase/mobile/
make package

You'll now have a tarball in mobilebase/mobile/dist/ named fennec-0.3.en-US.linux-arm.tar.bz2. Copy it to your device (you'll probably want to run bunzip2 on it first, since Maemo doesn't include it).

Extract and launch from a command line (X Terminal) on the device:

$ tar xf fennec-0.3.en-US.linux-arm.tar 
$ cd fennec
$ ./fennec

Building Fennec with the Gecko SDK

First download the appropriate Gecko SDK from [1]

Then pull Mozilla (for the build system) Fennec from hg

hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central
cd mozilla-central
hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser mobile

Your mozconfig should look like this:

# Options for client.mk.
mk_add_options MOZ_BUILD_PROJECTS="xulrunner mobile"
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/objdir-fennec


ac_add_options  --enable-application=mobile
ac_add_options  --with-libxul-sdk=<path to the SDK you downloaded and extracted>

Note: if you are building for x86 ubuntu, you will want to add "ac_add_options --disable-dbus" to your mozconfig

And finally, build

make -f client.mk build