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Note: would be good to try to do this on a fresh mac machine / vm. But I'll compile it on my macbook air with a bunch of junk on it for starters. |
''Note: would be good to try to do this on a fresh mac machine / vm. But I'll compile it on my macbook air with a bunch of junk on it for starters.'' |
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Gonna listen to https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/ |
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== Firefox == |
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Let's start with firefox. https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/macos_build.html |
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And we're off to the races... |
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They want me to install mercurial, ok, that's a bit odd. And a specific, older version, which isn't great. |
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Experiment: let's try running hg with the latest, version 6.2.3. |
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Ok now they want me to get the firefox source code with a bootstrap script. Wouldn't it be nice to just clone the source code using standard git/hg? |
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Now I've downloaded the script, and I'm reading it to see why they use a script at all. |
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Fun tip: curl can act like wget - download the file - with the -O option, with no parameter. |
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curl <nowiki>https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/default/python/mozboot/bin/bootstrap.py</nowiki> -O |
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The script sets up generaldelta to be true, but it appears this is not necessary as of mercurial version 3.7 |
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"format.generaldelta=true", |
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So let's skip that |
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Now for the actual merge command: |
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hg clone <nowiki>https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified</nowiki> |
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It's running, and it's taking a while. I wonder if there'd be a faster / easier way to do this, maybe using bittorrent? |
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So this is already a clear bother for users; slow ass cloning. |
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Found a broken link on https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/directory_structure.html: "snapshot" links to https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Source_Code/Downloading_Source_Archives |
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Revision as of 16:22, 14 November 2022
Gonna try to compile a couple browsers
Note: would be good to try to do this on a fresh mac machine / vm. But I'll compile it on my macbook air with a bunch of junk on it for starters.
Gonna listen to https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/
Firefox
Let's start with firefox. https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/macos_build.html
And we're off to the races...
They want me to install mercurial, ok, that's a bit odd. And a specific, older version, which isn't great.
Experiment: let's try running hg with the latest, version 6.2.3.
Ok now they want me to get the firefox source code with a bootstrap script. Wouldn't it be nice to just clone the source code using standard git/hg?
Now I've downloaded the script, and I'm reading it to see why they use a script at all.
Fun tip: curl can act like wget - download the file - with the -O option, with no parameter.
curl https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/default/python/mozboot/bin/bootstrap.py -O
The script sets up generaldelta to be true, but it appears this is not necessary as of mercurial version 3.7
"format.generaldelta=true",
So let's skip that
Now for the actual merge command:
hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified
It's running, and it's taking a while. I wonder if there'd be a faster / easier way to do this, maybe using bittorrent?
So this is already a clear bother for users; slow ass cloning.
Found a broken link on https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/directory_structure.html: "snapshot" links to https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Source_Code/Downloading_Source_Archives