On 24.07.2017 20:40, Nathan Froyd wrote:
Sure, it's daily business for us, too. Mike cited examples in his
response (e.g. we cannot compile natively on 32-bit systems, Android
included, so Firefox for such platforms is cross compiled from a
64-bit platform).
OTOH, we should keep in mind that most distros dont do cross compiling.
Some distros (eg. gentoo or lfs) are also building on the target.
I don't like the idea of kicking away these platforms.
Haven't tried on Windows yet. Can we crosscompile it from Linux ?
No. There are a few people interested, but there are lots of issues.
I'd guess it could be helpful for developers not running Windows,
at least for doing some build checks.
This raises the question: why does it take up so much memory ?
Because Firefox is a large program, and linking large programs takes
up a large amount of memory, more than is addressable on 32-bit
systems.
Well, why is the main program so big that linking takes up so much
memory ? Perhaps a lack of proper modularization ?
One thing we could do about that might be limitig the exported symbols
of shared libraries (only export the really necessary ones).
There are probably many places the build can be optimized; if you have
a suggestion, please file a bug at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&component=Build%20Config
I'm currently working on fixing optional features, eg. protocols,
codecs, etc. Let's see whether I'll also find things to clean up
in the build system.
Is there an automatic interface for patch submission (something
similarily easy like git-send-mail) ? Having to click through websites
manually is just very time consuming.
You can request level 1 commit access to our try infrastructure:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/commit/access-policy/
That will enable you to build Firefox with your patches on all the
major platforms we support.
Sounds interesting. Is there a way for pushing via git directly ?
I'm currently lacking the resources for coping w/ hg stuff.
A real cool feature would be the CI directly pulling from github,
that would make things a lot easier for people like me.
--mtx
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