Re: Mozilla Windows CE Development

"Doug Turner" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:[email protected]...
> Hello all,
>
> Thank you for your interest in the Windows CE work we are doing.  I have 
> gotten alot of feedback from my posting to the newsgroup regarding help on 
> building a great browser for Windows CE.  I thought I would take this 
> moment to tell you the progress I have made and point out a few areas 
> where I think you can help.
>
> So, as of today, if you had a bit of time, you could build yourself a 
> browser that is based on the Mozilla source code.
>
> I have been able to port Minimo -- a smaller configuration of Mozilla over 
> to Windows CE.  The heavy lifting is mostly done with respect to porting. 
> In fact, I have a IPAQ 6315 for a phone and it is the browser I use daily. 
> There are a few loose ends such as XPTCall 
> (http://www.mozilla.org/scriptable/xptcall-faq.html), build and config 
> changes, https, and code reviews.  Most of these items have people working 
> on them.  If you are interested in any, please let me know.  The tracking 
> bug for all things windows ce related is here: 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277211.
>
> Currently, I am building against the Pocket PC 2003 SDK.  We may want to 
> adjust this at some point, but I thought it would be acceptable place to 
> start.  The binary is 3.8MB compressed not including security.  To run the 
> build I have, you need about 5mb of memory to display www.google.com (this 
> is a pretty soft number.  i need a better tool to determine exact rss 
> usage -- if you have a tool in mind, please let me know)
>
> I have written up some notes on how to go about building this stuff.  I 
> don't claim the notes are perfect, but they are a start.  Ideally, the 
> notes will turn into a "how to build for windows ce" webpage.  If someone 
> wants to help on this, please let me know.  The notes are here: 
> http://www.meer.net/~dougt/minimo_ce/NOTES.txt.  The short term plan is to 
> make building windows CE very simple -- as simply as building the Mozilla 
> suite or Firefox.
>
> The build works great on the device, but I am having some troubles getting 
> things to compile for the emulator.  Maybe someone can help here.  I have 
> toolwrappers (read my notes) for the emulator that I can send you.  Just 
> to note, it looks like libraries are building built but nothing is being 
> exported.
>
> On to the application itself...
>
> If you try the build now you will find there is alot of windows 
> integration work that needs to happen.  For example, we need to be able to 
> get our app into the start menu.  I don't have a clue on how to do this 
> yet and am hoping that one of you do.
>
> Another thing you will notice is the UI for the application is terrible. I 
> really need your input and windows ce coding skills here.  If you want to 
> take a look at the current code for the application, it  is here: 
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/embedding/minimo/wince.
>
> You can download a sneak peak at this build here: 
> http://www.meer.net/~dougt/minimo_ce/MinimoCE_0.002.zip.  Keep in mind, it 
> is basically the second build that I made that actually rendered a page 
> successfully.  When you check it out, remember I told you: Lots of work to 
> do;  Lots of work to do.
>
> If you find bugs, please write them up in bugzilla: 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Minimo  For the 
> Operating System, just simply select other.  We are working on adding a 
> Windows CE option.
>
> Please let me know what you think and sign up for work if you can.  we 
> can't make this happen without you.
>
> Regards,
> Doug
>
>
>
Does anyone have any ideas on how to correct this compile problem?  I got to 
the end of Doug's "Building WINCE" doc and am still getting this error.  The 
output of the error is below.

C:\mozilla>make -f client.mk build
Adding client.mk options from /cygdrive/c/mozilla/.mozconfig:
    MOZ_CO_PROJECT=suite
    MOZ_OBJDIR=$(TOPSRCDIR)/obj-arm
    WINCE=1
    MINIMO=1
cd /cygdrive/c/mozilla/obj-arm
/cygdrive/c/mozilla/configure
Adding configure options from /cygdrive/c/mozilla/.mozconfig:
  --enable-application=suite
  --target=arm-wince
  --enable-win32-target=WINCE
  --enable-default-toolkit=windows
  --without-libIDL
  --disable-md
  --disable-xul
  --disable-profilesharing
  --disable-profilelocking
  --enable-single-profile
  --disable-extensions
  --disable-accessibility
  --disable-composer
  --enable-plaintext-editor-only
  --disable-mailnews
  --disable-ldap
  --disable-postscript
  --disable-mathml
  --disable-jsd
  --disable-jsloader
  --disable-installer
  --disable-xpinstall
  --disable-xpfe-components
  --disable-necko-disk-cache
  --enable-necko-small-buffers
  --disable-dtd-debug
  --disable-logging
  --disable-tests
  --enable-crypto
  --enable-necko-protocols=http,file,res,jar
  --enable-image-decoders=png,gif,jpeg
  --enable-strip
  --disable-debug
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking target system type... arm-unknown-wince
checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
cross compiling from i686-pc-cygwin to arm-unknown-wince
checking for host c compiler... checking for gcc... gcc
gcc
checking for host c++ compiler... checking for c++... c++
c++
checking for ranlib... no
checking for ar... no
checking whether the host c compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the host c++ compiler (c++  ) works... yes
checking for arm-wince-gcc... arm-wince-gcc
checking for gcc... arm-wince-gcc
checking whether the C compiler (arm-wince-gcc  ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot 
create executables.
*** Fix above errors and then restart with "make -f client.mk build"
make: *** [/cygdrive/c/mozilla/obj-arm/Makefile] Error 1

Thanks,

FReD