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Re: Firefox on cygwinX


On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 11:32 -0400, Richard Campbell wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 08:14 -0700, Charles Li wrote:
>  >
> >> I look through the setup and can not find cl, I have
> >> all the gcc installed.  What else do I need?
> > 
> > Sounds like you have Visual C++ (or equivalent) installed and that's
> > where the program 'cl' comes from. It will be in your environment.
> 
> This is not right.  The Firefox configure file ends up hardcoding
> cl if it detects a windows platform.  You have to export CC/CXX/CPP
> variables to override cl.
> 
> See http://citations.mozdev.org/mozilla-build-win32.html
> 
> Cygwin-X is not a supported build target.
> 
> Gerrit Haase was working on supporting Firefox on Cygwin-X.  See
> this thread:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-08/msg00071.html

Thanks for the info Richard.

I find it a little broken on Firefox's part to be hardcoding the
compiler like that though just because it detects a Windows platform.

Alan.

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