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# 04/08/2019: Firefox has been built
After hours of build attempts of both Chromium and Firefox, we have
successfully packaged Firefox. Chromium is a story for another time. The
build systems for these two browsers border on insanity and their
overall size and complexity is paramount.
- Firefox requires both GTK2 and GTK3. GTK2 is required only for
flash. \[1\]
- Both Chromium and Firefox require `nodejs` to build.
- Both Chromium and Firefox require Python 2.
- Both browsers bundle all of their required third-party libraries and
they cannot all be set to use the system\'s.
- `clang` is now the default and "supported" compiler of both
browsers.
- Firefox requires a version of `automake` which is 18(?) years old.
\[2\] \[3\]
- Firefox requires `rust` which was painful to package for `musl` to
say the least.
- Chromium\'s build scripts require `python2` yet call `python` which
points to `python3`.
- A large number of patches were needed for both to support `musl`.
- Both browsers depend on GTK+3 which depends on `dbus`. This
dependency was removed by using a fake `atk` library.
- ALSA audio support is being removed from Firefox. This includes the
configure flag to enable it.
- This will be updated as I remember things.
Sources:
- \[1\] <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1377445>
- \[2\] <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104642>
- \[3\] <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297544>
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