User:Florian/building purplexpcom for Thunderbird
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The add-on Additional Chat Protocols for Thunderbird is made from parts of Instantbird.
The source code is the purple/ folder of the Instantbird repository.
To build for all OSes, I pushed that code to the Thunderbird try server.
The changesets I pushed to the try server can be downloaded here. They contain:
- the purple/ folder of the Instantbird repository (any revision that contains the patch from Instantbird bug 1665 and its follow ups should work). Let's say I used the purple/ folder of revision 29d2a239ba24.
- a patch to adapt the comm-central build system to build purple/ (Thunderbird 15, 16 and 17 versions)
- some very simple changes to purple/ to disable the jabber and qq libpurple protocol plugins (jabber because Thunderbird already ships by default a generic XMPP plugin and I don't want to override it, and qq because it doesn't work correctly at the moment, even for Instantbird), and to disable purple/'s xpcshell tests (I didn't request tests on the try server runs, so just commenting out the lines related to the test in the purple/ Makefile was easier than adding a line in mail/'s xpcshell.ini file to make the harness find them). (patch available here)
- when building for Thunderbird 16 and 17, the same patch has some additional fixes to keep purplexpcom building against newer gecko versions. For Thunderbird 16 I had deal with the removal of nsILocalFile, and for Thunderbird 17 I also had to deal with the nsnull->nullptr change and the removal of the NS_OUTPARAM and NS_SCRIPTABLE macros (this patch has been posted to Instantbird bug 1606 and reviewed there. (Patch available here for the Thunderbird 16 and Thunderbird 17 versions)
I included in the add-on localized strings for the top 4 locales of Thunderbird (en-US, de, fr, ja) from http://hg.instantbird.org/l10n/libpurple/