Developer:Building Spicebird From Source Code

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This page describes the steps required to build Spicebird from Source Code.

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Build Prerequisites

Spicebird has the same prerequisites as Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird described at

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Build_Documentation#Build_prerequisites.

Get Full Source Code

Get the full Mozilla + Spicebird code first. Unpack it as follows: 

$ tar -xf spicebird-beta-0.7-full_source.tar.bz2

Skip the next step if you have performed this step. However, if you want to get Mozilla and Spicebird code separately and use them, then you must skip this step and follow the next one.

Get Spicebird and Mozilla Code and Prepare it

  1. Get the Spicebird source code as described in Developer:Get Spicebird Source Code page. You will most likely end up having a tarball or a folder with Spicebird source when checked out from the Subversion repository.
  2. If you ended up downloading a tarball, extract it. 
    $ tar -xvjf spicebird-beta-0.4-source.tar.bz2

    This would create a folder named 'collab'.

  3. Download the compatible Mozilla source code as described in Developer:Get Compatible Mozilla Source Code page. You will end up having a source tarball or a folder if you checked out the source from Mozilla CVS.
  4. Again, if you ended up downloading a tarball, extract it. 
    $ tar -xvjf mozilla_DATE_20071122_0000_PDT.tar.bz2

    This will create a folder named 'mozilla' - which is the Mozilla source directory. Move the extracted Spicebird code (from step 2) to the Mozilla source directory.

    $ mv /path/to/collab /path/to/mozilla
  5. Spicebird sometimes needs a few changes (that have not gone upstream, yet) in the base Mozilla code. For this patches are provided along with the collab source code. Apply these patches. 
    $ cd /path/to/mozilla
$ collab/patches/patch.sh

    Note: Older version of the Spicebird has patches distributed separately. In this case you need to download the patches tarball, listed in the table on Developer:Get Compatible Mozilla Source Code page and apply them similarly.

Build the Source Code

  1. Create mozconfig 
    $ echo ". ${topsrcdir}/collab/config/mozconfig" > $HOME/.mozconfig
  2. Start compilation 
    $ cd /path/to/mozilla/source 
$ make -f client.mk build

Creating installer

To create an installer, the following line has be to included in mozconfig file, before the compilation is started. 

$ echo "ac_add_options --enable-static --disable-shared" >> $HOME/.mozconfig

NOTE: Unless MOZ_OBJDIR is specified, build directory is same as the Mozilla source directory.

After the compilation is done, change to the build directory and build the installer.

For Windows 

$ cd /path/to/build-dir
$ make -C collab/installer installer

For Linux 

$ cd /path/to/build-dir
$ make -C collab/installer

On Linux, this will create a bzipped file at /path/to/build-dir/dist and on Windows, this will create a setup file at /path/to/build-dir/dist/install/sea.

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