Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2013-06-19

Chapter 25. X Libraries

Xulrunner-21.0

Introduction to Xulrunner

Xulrunner is a runtime environment for XUL applications, and forms the major part of the Mozilla codebase. In particular, it provides the Gecko engine together with pkgconfig files so that other applications can find and use it.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.3 platform.

Package Information

Xulrunner Dependencies

Required

alsa-lib-1.0.27, GTK+-2.24.17, Zip-3.0 and UnZip-6.0

Recommended

libevent-2.0.21, libvpx-1.1.0, NSPR-4.9.6, NSS-3.14.3, SQLite-3.7.17 and yasm-1.2.0

[Note]

Note

If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes.

Optional

cURL-7.30.0, D-Bus GLib Bindings-0.100.2, Doxygen-1.8.4, gnome-vfs-2.24.4 and libgnomeui-2.24.5 (for integration with the old version of GNOME), Hunspell, libnotify-0.7.5, startup-notification-0.12, Wget-1.14 and Wireless Tools-29

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xulrunner

Installation of Xulrunner

The configuration of Xulrunner is accomplished by creating a mozconfig file containing the desired configuration options. A default mozconfig is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue ./configure --help. You should review the entire file and comment or uncomment options as necessary. 

cat > mozconfig << "EOF"
# If you have a multicore machine you can speed up the build by running
# several jobs at once by uncommenting the following line and setting the
# value to number of CPU cores:
#mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4"

# If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-dbus

# If you have installed wireless-tools comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi

# If you have installed libnotify comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-libnotify

# Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies:
#ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
#ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification

# If you have not installed Yasm then uncomment this line:
#ac_add_options --disable-webm

# Comment out following options if you have not installed
# recommended dependencies:
ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss

# It is recommended not to touch anything below this line
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
ac_add_options --enable-application=xulrunner

ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-mochitest

ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip

ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman

ac_add_options --enable-shared-js
ac_add_options --with-pthreads

ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/xulrunner-build-dir
EOF

Install Xulrunner by issuing the following commands: 

make -f client.mk

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make -C xulrunner-build-dir install &&

mkdir -pv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins &&
rm -rf /usr/lib/xulrunner-21.0/plugins &&
ln -sv ../mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/xulrunner-21.0 &&

chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/xulrunner-21.0/libxpcom.so \
             /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-21.0/sdk/bin/xpcshell &&

for library in libmozalloc.so libmozjs.so libxpcom.so libxul.so; do
    ln -sfv ../../../xulrunner-21.0/$library \
            /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-21.0/sdk/lib/$library
    ln -sfv xulrunner-21.0/$library /usr/lib/$library
done

ln -sfv ../xulrunner-devel-21.0/sdk/bin/run-mozilla.sh \
        /usr/lib/xulrunner-21.0
ln -sfv ../xulrunner-devel-21.0/sdk/bin/xpcshell \
        /usr/lib/xulrunner-21.0

Command Explanations

make -f client.mk ...: Mozilla products are packaged to allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the configuration settings to the configure command. make uses the client.mk file to get initial configuration and setup parameters.

ln -sfv ../mozilla/plugins ...: Some packages will install browser plugins into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Creating this symlink Xulrunner keeps additional plugins in a common directory.

for library in libmozalloc.so libmozjs.so libxpcom.so libxul.so ... : The libraries shipped with this package are installed into /usr/lib/xulrunner-21.0 which means they will not be found at runtime. These commands make relative symbolic links to the shared libraries from /usr/lib. They will also replace duplicate libraries that are installed in /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-21.0/sdk/lib with symlinks in order to save some space.

ln -sfv ../xulrunner-devel-21.0/sdk/bin/ ... The run-mozilla.sh and xpcshell files have been moved in this version, but the code which installs Firefox (when linked to xulrunner) was not updated. These symlinks allowFirefox to install when built against Xulrunner.

Contents

Installed Programs: xulrunner
Installed Libraries: Numerous libraries, browser components, plugins, extensions, and helper modules installed in /usr/lib/xulrunner-21.0
Installed Directories: /usr/include/xulrunner-21.0, /usr/lib/xulrunner-21.0, /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-21.0 and /usr/share/idl/xulrunner-21.0

Short Descriptions

xulrunner

is a shell script used for identifying the installed version and running Xulrunner applications.

Last updated on 2013-05-17 20:11:12 +0000