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 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 folder with Spicebird and corresponding Mozilla source code checked out from the source repository.
  2. 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/source
$ 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 top-level 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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