Getting the Source

• AllPeers is Mozilla extensions and it uses a lot of its libraries. In order to build it, you’ll need Mozilla’s sources first.
• Please, see Mozilla's build documentation to see how to configure build environment, get the mozilla’s source and build it. On this page, you’ll find AllPeers specific information.

• Follow http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites. This note adds some hints how to execute the steps described there.
• When installing cygwin, check that modules listed in ‘complete cygwin package list for building Mozilla’ are selected including autoconf 2.13. Install to the default location c:\cygwin. Rename c:\cygwin\bin\link.exe to c:\cygwin\bin\glink.exe.
• Use make version not higher then 3.80-1.
• Take moztools-static.zip version ‘AND’ your specific version (for MS VS.NET 2003 aka MSVC71 it is vc71-glib-1.2.10-bin.zip and vc71-libIDL-0.6.8-bin.zip. Install to a directory outside of c:\cygwin (for instance c:\usr\lib\moztools) !

mkdir /cygdrive/c/usr /cygdrive/c/usr/lib/moztools

• Prepare directory for Mozilla source code

mkdir /cygdrive/c/usr/src
cd /cygdrive/c/usr/src

• Download batch_file_for_building_mozilla_with_msvc71 to your desktop and use to start your shell for building Mozilla. Change path to moztools if necessary.

• Use MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH revision from CVS for compilation and developement (see Mozilla Guide for getting the source code). Firefox 1.5 uses MOZILLA_1_8_0_BRANCH.

  # Use password: anonymous
  cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot login
  cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co -r MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH mozilla/client.mk
  cd mozilla
  make -f client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser

• In order to update branch use

  cvs up -r MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH client.mk
  make -f client.mk

• Check out ‘allpeers’ module to the extensions directory:

  CVSROOT=:pserver:cvsanon@krtek.allpeers.com:/opt/cvs-mirror
  cvs -d $CVSROOT login
  cd extensions
  cvs -d $CVSROOT co allpeers 

Now, you can continue with building.