Xulrunner-27.0.1

Installation of Xulrunner

The configuration of Xulrunner is accomplished by creating a mozconfig file containing the desired configuration options. A default mozconfig is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue ./configure --help. You should review the entire file and comment or uncomment options as necessary.

cat > mozconfig << "EOF"
# If you have a multicore machine, firefox will now use all the cores by
# default. Exceptionally, you can reduce the number of cores, e.g. to 1,
# by uncommenting the next line and setting a valid number of CPU cores.
#mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1"

# If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-dbus

# If you have installed wireless-tools comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi

# If you have installed libnotify comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-libnotify

# GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player;
# to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true"
# in about:config. If you have installed GStreamer comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer

# Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies:
#ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
#ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification

# Uncomment this line if you compiled Cairo with --enable-tee switch and want
# to use it instead of the bundled one:
#ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo

# If you have not installed Yasm then uncomment this line:
#ac_add_options --disable-webm

# Comment out following options if you have not installed
# recommended dependencies:
ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss

# It is recommended not to touch anything below this line
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
ac_add_options --enable-application=xulrunner

ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-mochitest

ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip

ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman

ac_add_options --enable-shared-js
ac_add_options --with-pthreads

ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/xulrunner-build-dir
EOF

Note

Xulrunner's build uses large amount of memory. On some systems, the RAM/Swap combination needs 6 GB available.

Build Xulrunner by issuing the following commands:

Note

If you are compiling Xulrunner in chroot, prepend SHELL=/bin/bash to the first make command below.

make -f client.mk

This package does not come with a test suite.

Install, as the root user:

make -C xulrunner-build-dir install &&

mkdir -pv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins &&
rm -rf /usr/lib/xulrunner-27.0.1/plugins &&
ln -sv ../mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/xulrunner-27.0.1 &&

chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-27.0.1/sdk/bin/xpcshell &&

for library in libmozalloc.so libmozjs.so libxul.so; do
    ln -sfv ../../../xulrunner-27.0.1/$library \
            /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-27.0.1/sdk/lib/$library
    ln -sfv xulrunner-27.0.1/$library /usr/lib/$library
done

ln -sfv ../xulrunner-devel-27.0.1/sdk/bin/run-mozilla.sh \
        /usr/lib/xulrunner-27.0.1
ln -sfv ../xulrunner-devel-27.0.1/sdk/bin/xpcshell \
        /usr/lib/xulrunner-27.0.1