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| projects: | Main Metagrams Toolbar for Mozilla Your idea? |
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| resources: | Home Install Build the Toolbar Feedback Bugs |
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Building the Metagrams Toolbar for Mozilla is a simple task. It will require:
- cvs (required for retrieving the source tree)
- make (a version that supports the -C command line option)
- perl
- zip
If you are running Linux, these tools are most likely already installed on your system. If you are running Windows, the easiest way to get these tools is through the Cygwin environment (you will have to specifically select some of these tools while installing to get them). If you are running a Mac, I wish I could help you, but I don't have a Mac myself, and as such I can't give any detailed advice. (If you're willing to write instructions on doing this, feel free to file a bug in the Site component and upload any instructions there.)
From now on, I recommend you use a command line program to follow these
instructions. First, navigate to the directory in which you wish to store the
source code. After installing the above programs and making sure each is in
your PATH environment variable (export PATH=..., set PATH=...,
or setenv PATH=..., most likely), you must
first download the source code from CVS:
- Check out the source using anonymous CVS with the following commands
(password is guest):
cvs -d :pserver:guest@mozdev.org:/cvs login cvs -d :pserver:guest@mozdev.org:/cvs co words
(CVS clients and Help Documentation can be found at cvshome.org.)
After downloading the source from CVS, navigate to the Metagrams Toolbar
directory inside your current location (cd
words/projects/mg_toolbar). Type make
build and you should be good to go. The created files will be in
the dist folder as metagrams.jar and
metagrams.xpi. metagrams.xpi is the XPI install file,
while metagrams.jar is the JAR file which may be dropped in the
install location after an initial XPI install.