Re: need help building PyXPCOM - which version of Mozilla does it build with?

Chris Knight wrote:
> Which version (date?) of Mozilla have you been able to build PyXPCOM 
> against on Linux (Mandrake 9) using the integrated build process, not 
> the stupid makefiles?
> 
> Ok, here's my details:
> 
> The eventual target platform for embedding gecko via PyXPCOM is Windows, 
> so if anyone knows of a binary distribution of PyXPCOM, I'd be ecstatic.
> 
> Needless to say, being the cross-platform guy that I am, I'd like to 
> also build PyXPCOM for Linux, esp. as we may move our target platform to 
>  Linux and/or OSX, so I don't want to have to re-tool my XPCOM 
> application for the platform changes and also because I do most of my 
> development in Linux.
> 
> I'd prefer to use the latest and greatest version of Mozilla, but it 
> appears that the nsOutputConsoleStream class has been depricated out of 
> the latest CVS, I can either try to fix it (and post patches) or 
> (preferred) I can go back to the version that others report having 
> success with building PyXPCOM. (And perhaps, later work on the patches.)

The 1.1 branch should work.  Sometime between then and now the trunk 
stopped.

One day I will find the time to fix this - however, it is very hard to 
stay motivated when the many other patches I make for areas other than 
PyXPCOM just rot, in some cases for nearly 2 years.

So maybe I will just schedule this fix once all my other patches listed 
in Bugzilla get traction <wink/sigh>.  It is no fun when everything 
seems to flow in one direction.

Mark.