How to build firefox with indic support

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Firefox Build with indic support

Required Packages

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1. glibc-devel 
2. pango
3. pango-devel
4. gcc
5. libXft
6. libXft-devel

Tips: you can use  yum search|install above packages if you have internet connection

Mozconfig - Mozilla configuration File

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Mozilla firefox should be built using the .mozconfig file. a sample of the file can be taken a look at here

Once you created .mozconfig file, download the firefox source from here

untar it in a specified location.
copy the .mozconfig to the untarred location.
run gmake -f client.mk build inside the mozilla folder.
mozilla now compiles the program and it will take hours depending on the type of system and memory you have.

Automated script to download and build indic enabled firefox 1.5.0.4

A script is available to automated the above tasks. Its available here How to use this script:

1. Install all the required packages needed for building firefox 1.5 as mentioned above.

2. Ensure that you have internet connection.

3. Create an empty folder in your linux box.

4. Copy this script in the empty folder and run it.

5. After the script completes, the firefox indic package will be available in the folder.

useful commands

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tar -jxf bonecho-alpha2-source.tar.bz2
   untar the files to the mozilla directory
gmake -f client.mk build
   builds the  mozilla firefox using the .mozconfig file
gmake -f client.mk
   automatically checksout the files from mozilla

Explanation of .mozconfig file

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser

 you are building the mozilla firefox browser

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-@CONFIG_GUESS@

 you are separating the source code and object files by creating a directory obj-i686-gnu-xxx

mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j4

 its a compile flags

1. Options for 'configure' (same as command-line options).

ac_add_options --enable-application=browser

 you are building the mozilla firefox application. you can build thunderbird, and many other applications using the source

ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2

 enabling the GNU toolkit to be used by firefox

ac_add_options --enable-pango

 enabling the indic support

ac_add_options --enable-update-channel=beta ac_add_options --enable-update-packaging

 for updates

ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --disable-tests

 for community release, debugging,tests is disabled, 

ac_add_options '--enable-optimize=-Os -freorder-blocks -fno-reorder-functions -gstabs+'

 compiler optimization flags

ac_add_options --enable-xft

 enabling Xft - X FreeType interface library

ac_add_options --disable-freetype2

 disabling FreeType 2 library

ac_add_options --enable-svg

 enabling the support for scalable vector graphics 

ac_add_options --enable-canvas

ac_add_options --enable-static ac_add_options --disable-shared

 building the static firefox all linked statically so that u can port anywhere