[haiku-development] Re: Firefox for gcc 4 builds

  • From: Fredrik Ekdahl <fekdahl@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:44:55 +0200

Ingo Weinhold skrev:
On 2008-09-21 at 10:37:56 [+0200], Fredrik Ekdahl <fekdahl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi!
To make gcc 4 builds more usable an easily accessible browser is really
necessary. As can be seen in the screenshot below, Firefox can be built
for gcc 4 Haiku.
http://dustin.howett.net/haiku/aa1_1.png

There is also a guide on how to cross-compile Firefox for Haiku here:
http://wiki.bebits.com/page/CrosscompilingFirefox

Though there seems to be two dependencies missing, quoting from the
article: "We need glib and libIDL for Haiku. Unfortunatly glib was hard
to crosscompile so I will not discuss it here. Hopefully someone will
provide proper built versions."

It would be nice if not everyone who wants Firefox for gcc 4 built Haiku
needs to build it themselves, going through a seemingly cumbersome
procedure. As there seems to be some people out there who already have
it built, could you make it available as an "optional package", like the
gcc 2 version?

Is there any problem with using the gcc 2 Firefox with a gcc4/gcc2 hybrid Haiku? At least according to the optional package definition it can be installed.

I'm not sure, haven't tried building a hybrid image. BTW, I couldn't find instructions for this in the READMEs, where is it documented? Ideally I'd like a "clean" gcc 4 install, so if Firefox can be built with gcc 4 I'd prefer that.

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/Fredrik Ekdahl

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