Firefox Indic Build

Building Firefox with indic support from source code

Required Packages Need to be installed

  • glibc-devel
  • pango
  • pango-devel
  • gcc
  • libXft
  • libXft-devel 
Tips: you can use  yum search|install above packages if you have internet connection


Mozconfig - Mozilla configuration File

Mozilla firefox should be built using the .mozconfig file. a sample of the file can be taken a look at here Once you created .mozconfig file, download the firefox source from here untar it in a specified location. copy the .mozconfig to the untarred location. run gmake -f build inside the mozilla folder. mozilla now compiles the program and it will take hours depending on the type of system and memory you have.

useful commands

tar -jxf gmake -f bonecho-alpha2-source.tar.bz2 

  untar the files to the mozilla directory

gmake -f client.mk build 

  builds the  mozilla firefox using the .mozconfig file

gmake -f client.mk 

  automatically checksout the files from mozilla

Explanation of .mozconfig file

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser 

you are building the mozilla firefox browser

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-@CONFIG_GUESS@ 

you are separating the source code and object files by creating a directory obj-i686-gnu-xxx

mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j4 

its a compile flags

  1. Options for 'configure' (same as command-line options).

ac_add_options --enable-application=browser 

you are building the mozilla firefox application. you can build thunderbird, and many other applications using the source

ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 

enabling the GNU toolkit to be used by firefox

ac_add_options --enable-pango 

enabling the indic support

ac_add_options --enable-update-channel=beta ac_add_options --enable-update-packaging 

for updates

ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --disable-tests 

for community release, debugging,tests is disabled,

ac_add_options '--enable-optimize=-Os -freorder-blocks -fno-reorder-functions -gstabs+' 

compiler optimization flags

ac_add_options --enable-xft 

enabling Xft - X FreeType interface library

ac_add_options --disable-freetype2 

disabling FreeType 2 library

ac_add_options --enable-svg 

enabling the support for scalable vector graphics

ac_add_options --enable-canvas


ac_add_options --enable-static ac_add_options --disable-shared 

building the static firefox all linked statically so that u can port anywhere
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