[haiku-development] Re: Firefox for gcc 4 builds
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:14:31 +0200
Fredrik Ekdahl 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?
If someone would provide a ready package, I could take care of defining an
optional package.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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