Re: Adding a dll

Daniel Veditz wrote:
> Jonathan Watt wrote:
> 
> 
>>I would like to create installers for modified builds of Mozilla and 
>>Firefox. No additional downloadable components will be required since 
>>I'm just adding svg support. I've been reading the instructions at:
>>
>>http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/installer/build.html
>>http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xpinstall/wizard/windows/
>>and surrounding docs
>>
>>I can build by just adding the file gdiplus.dll to 
>>redist\microsoft\system, so to create the installer I think I just need 
>>to change one or more of the scripts, but I'm not sure which one(s) or 
>>what changes to make. Can anyone help me, or point me in the right 
>>direction?
> 
> 
> GdiPlus.dll is a MS redistributable file, right? If so you'd want to add it
> to the following places:
> 
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpinstall/packager/windows/makexpi.pl#82
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpinstall/packager/win_gre/makexpi.pl#82
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/toolkit/mozapps/installer/makexpi.pl#69
> 
> -Dan Veditz

That's great, thanks Dan! Yes gdiplus.dll is an MS dedistributable. I'll 
give that a go and hopefully it will work this time. :)

I have subsequently thought of another problem. The distributed version 
of that DLL should only be used by Mozilla when run on win2k and below 
since they don't have a version of gdiplus.dll. WinXP has a copy of this 
file and Mozilla should use it instead (apparently it will cause 
problems if it doesn't). Does the installer provide a way to detect the 
version of Windows and only install the file if it should be installed?

Thanks again,
Jonathan