Howto compile SeaMonkey

October 31, 2010 — BarryK

There is some discussion in the forum on how to compile SeaMonkey. This is how I do it:

You need to have sqlite at least 3.6.23.1, and hunspell installed.

create .mozconfig with this in it:



mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/objdir-sm-release

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=suite

ac_add_options --enable-application=suite

ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell

ac_add_options --localstatedir=/var

ac_add_options --sysconfdir=/etc

ac_add_options --prefix=/usr

ac_add_options --host=i486-t2-linux-gnu

ac_add_options --disable-dbus

ac_add_options --disable-accessibility

ac_add_options --with-system-bz2

ac_add_options --disable-updater

ac_add_options --disable-parental-controls

ac_add_options --enable-places

ac_add_options --disable-gnomevfs

ac_add_options --disable-gnomeui

ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite

ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo

ac_add_options --enable-install-strip

ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg

ac_add_options --with-system-zlib

ac_add_options --enable-static

ac_add_options --enable-storage

ac_add_options --disable-tests

ac_add_options --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/seamonkey

ac_add_options --disable-jsd

ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2



# export MOZCONFIG=`pwd`



# make -f client.mk

# cd objdir-sm-release

# make package

...makes tarball in mozilla/dist/

You can also create a seamonkey_DEV package:

have to manually build the _DEV pkg...



mkdir usr/include/seamonkey-2.0.10

cd usr/include/seamonkey-2.0.10

mkdir xpcom

copied mozilla/xpcom/base/nscore.h, mozilla/xpcom/glue/nsDebug.h, to xpcom/.

# cp -frL /mnt/sda3/sources/input040/seamonkey-2.0.10/comm-1.9.1/mozilla/dist/include/* ./

# cp -frL /mnt/sda3/sources/input040/seamonkey-2.0.10/comm-1.9.1/mozilla/dist/public/* ./



had to manually create the /usr/lib/seamonkey/pkgconfig/seamonkey-*.pc files, also created symlinks. (see my seamonkey_DEV PETs how to do this)



This also:

# cd usr/include/seamonkey-2.0.10

# ln -s plugin/npapi.h npapi.h

# ln -s plugin/npruntime.h npruntime.h

# ln -s pref/nsIPrefBranch.h nsIPrefBranch.h

# ln -s pref/nsIPrefService.h nsIPrefService.h



See my seamonkey PET pkgs for anything else to add, http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/

It is important to get one of my PETs to see what to add and remove. For example, you can remove the spell-checker files as the system hunspell will take care of that (at least, in Wary and Quirky that is already installed).

I also do stuff like cut down some icons and remove some extensions (such as 'modern' theme).

Comments

Firefox Thunderbird compile(s)
Username: tronkel
OK good call on the Seamonkey build for Wary. Do you by any chance have the magic formulae for Firefox and Thunderbird as well? It would also be great if popular extensions for Mozilla apps such as Enigmail and Lightning, Provider for Google Calendar etc. were made available home-brewed for Wary/Quirky. Ubuntu/Debian have their own distro-specific builds of these extensions - so should Puppy Linux then.

SM-2.0.12
Username: 01micko
"I'm compiling now for spup :) I find AARnet the fastest mirror for grabbing SM sources: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/mozilla/seamonkey/releases/2.0.12/source/ Got in about 30 seconds! I have also found this guide fantastic, only difference is that I enable dbus. Cheers

SM 2.0.12 problem
Username: FeodorF
"SM 2.0.12 doesn't work with Wary-511 k.2.6.31.14 Xorg 1.3.0 (SiS 741).

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