Re: Mozilla Windows CE Development

I've posted this and some more pictures on to www.modaco.com, hopefully
you'll get some people who know a lot about development for this OS.

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?s=32faed7b8e94fee74dcf558940d7a893&showtopic=202793

I'll be tracking progress for this and testing new builds as they come.


I'm running Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition on my Orange M1000.

128MB RAM, the app itself is being stored on my storage card.
Doug Turner wrote:
> 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