Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/11/05/18:23:32
Folks, mozilla hasn't been ported to cygwin. Second, there's no evidence
that n matrix is actually trying to build a cygwinized mozilla.
AFAICT, n matrix is just spamming random lists for help with his "problem"
-- he sent an identical message for help building mozilla to the XEmacs-nt
mailing list.
Recommend ending this thread unless nmatrix explains how his problem
relates to cygwin. (Or XEmacs <g>)
--Chuck
Gareth Pearce wrote:
>
>
> Mozilla has its own way of doing things
>
> make -f client.mk build
>
> is the way to build mozilla ...
> it runs the configure scripts and does all sorts of stuff...
>
> However ... trying to compile mozilla for xfree under cygwin ... I have
> not heard it work ... and my attempts at doing so have been frustrating
> ... not that I am an experienced port doing person...
>
>
> First file it trys to compile gave me problems. This comes up because
> uname -r has ( and ) in it ... (unless this changed in 1.3.4 ...) which
> will cause gcc to complain about syntax errors in arguments being passed
> to it due to mozilla compile process attempting to pass -DOSTYPE='`uname
> -m` `uname -r`' ... or something similar...
> I modified the actual cygwin source to change my uname -r ... but theres
> probably a not to hard way to modify the mozilla source to stop it from
> passing uname -r... I just found changing uname easier for my simple
> mind... (something to do with understanding code ... but NOT
> understanding configure/automake/etc/etc...)
>
> however ... mozilla is a big source ... and errors just kept on comming
> ... and being fixed ... and comming some more... someone with some more
> patience might be able to port it... or maybe just more knowledge...
>
> At least all the prerequisite libraries compile and appear to be
> working, so there is hope... sort of...
>
> Gareth
>
>>
>> Are you doing the following-
>>
>> cd /path-to-your-mozilla-src
>> mkdir build
>> cd build
>> ../configure
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> I have learned that this is necessary for many programs to compile. Note
>> that if you just did this-
>>
>> cd /path-to-your-mozilla-src
>> ./configure
>>
>> you may need to rm -rf /path-to-your-mozilla-src and extract the tar and
>> start over.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Peter
>>
>> n matrix wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:30:44 -0800 (PST), n matrix wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> Iam having a bit of trouble trying to build Mozilla 0.9.5 The
>>>> configure
>>>> script acutally ran successfully however when I try to make or make
>>>>
>>> install
>>>
>>>> I get the following message: make: *** No rule to make target
>>>> 'widget/src/gtksuperwin/Makefile.in' needed by
>>>> 'widget/src/gtksuperwin/Makefile'. Stop If anyone has any idea as to
>>>> the
>>>> error and to how to successfully build and install Mozilla please email
>>>>
>>> me.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> From,
>>>> nmatrix9
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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