About compiling Firefox

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My question is two fold:

  1. Firefox browser

I compiled firefox source-code in releases : https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.0/source/

but after I finish compiling, I met Nightly, not Firefox browser.

I would execute Firefox.

Might be there is any option to build Firefox? ( I searched the build configuration, but cannot find the option about browser)

If anyone have an experience about compiling Firefox from its source code, please help :)

  1. Rust dependency When I compiled Firefox, I encountered error below:

    0:06.97 Compiling mp4parse_capi v0.6.0 (file:///home/signal/Desktop/firefox_source/firefox-53.0/media/libstagefright/binding/mp4parse_capi) 0:06.97 Running /home/signal/.cargo/bin/rustc --crate-name build_script_build /home/signal/Desktop/firefox_source/firefox-53.0/media/libstagefright/binding/mp4parse_capi/build.rs --color always --crate-type bin --emit=dep-info,link -C opt-level=2 -C codegen-units=1 -C debuginfo=2 -C metadata=2476a8a7a86fe109 -C extra-filename=-2476a8a7a86fe109 --out-dir /home/signal/Desktop/firefox_source/firefox-53.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/toolkit/library/gtest/rust/./release/build/mp4parse_capi-2476a8a7a86fe109 -L dependency=/home/signal/Desktop/firefox_source/firefox-53.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/toolkit/library/gtest/rust/./release/deps 0:07.05 error[E0463]: can't find crate for cheddar 0:07.05 --> /home/signal/Desktop/firefox_source/firefox-53.0/media/libstagefright/binding/mp4parse_capi/build.rs:1:1 0:07.05 | 0:07.05 1 | extern crate cheddar; 0:07.05 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ can't find crate 0:07.05 0:07.05 error: aborting due to previous error 0:07.05 0:07.06 error: Could not compile mp4parse_capi. 0:07.06 0:07.06 Caused by: 0:07.06 process didn't exit successfully: /home/signal/.cargo/bin/rustc --crate-name build_script_build /home/signal/Desktop/firefox_source/firefox-53.0/media/libstagefright/binding/mp4parse_capi/build.rs --color always --crate-type bin --emit=dep-info,link -C opt-level=2 -C codegen-units=1 -C debuginfo=2 -C metadata=2476a8a7a86fe109 -C extra-filename=-2476a8a7a86fe109 --out-dir /home/signal/Desktop/firefox_source/firefox-53.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/toolkit/library/gtest/rust/./release/build/mp4parse_capi-2476a8a7a86fe109 -L dependency=/home/signal/Desktop/firefox_source/firefox-53.0/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/toolkit/library/gtest/rust/./release/deps (exit code: 101) 0:07.06 Build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish... 0:08.68 error: build failed 0:08.68 /home/signal/Desktop/firefox_source/firefox-53.0/config/rules.mk:966: recipe for target 'force-cargo-library-build' failed 0:08.68 make[5]: *** [force-cargo-library-build] Error 101 0:08.68 /home/signal/Desktop/firefox_source/firefox-53.0/config/recurse.mk:71: recipe for target 'toolkit/library/gtest/rust/target' failed

That seems I need a rust package to resolve dependecny. But in the latest version, I could complie firefox without any error.

Could anyone give any advice?

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firefoxbrowsercompilation

1 Answers

2
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Adding

build = false

to media/libstagefright/binding/mp4parse_capi/Cargo.toml fixed the issue. More info here: don't try to build mp4parse