Creating XULRunner Applications with the Mozilla Build System

Thursday January 03rd 2008, 6:14 pm Printer Friendly Version
Filed under:Mozpad, Firefox
Posted By: Matt

I’ve already received some encouraging feedback to my latest Mozpad post (I’ll be posting a followup soon). Further positive news is that I’ve made good, in a small way at least, on my pledge to devote some time to the Mozpad documentation project.

Having labored to get Prism to build using the Mozilla build system, I was struck by the lack of documentation on this topic for XULRunner developers in general. There’s a blog post by Songbird’s Ben Turner and there’s Dave Townsend’s McCoy project, which is a great practical example of how to do it. But nothing comprehensive on the documentation site.

So I decided to turn my original “Creating Custom Firefox Extensions with the Mozilla Build System” article into a franchise with “Creating XULRunner Apps with the Mozilla Build System”. The article has yet to be reviewed, and to quote Douglas Adams, “it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate.” (Unfortunately I didn’t think to adorn it with a prominent “Don’t Panic” label, although this would certainly have been apt.)

Stay tuned for new additions to the series, including “Traditional Chinese Calligraphy with the Mozilla Build System”, “Mastering the Mental Game of Golf with the Mozilla Build System” and the much-anticipated “12 Days to a Flatter Stomach with the Mozilla Build System”.


2 Comments »

  1. Great work! I’m sure this will be very helpful, thanks!

    Comment by Florian — 1/3/2008 @ 8:09 pm

  2. thanx man

    Comment by oyun — 3/5/2008 @ 12:01 am

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