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Neil Waldhauer:
I see the posting of new builds for Mozilla apps. The prerequisite list looks shorter now. What compiler was used to make the new builds?

(Thanks Dave Yeo, for supporting us with these new builds.)

Dave Yeo:
Hi Neil, they're built with the system GCC 9.2.0, Paul's latest GCC builds can't link xul.dll.
These are just i686 builds of the same code as the P4 builds though I did fix a packaging error where some XQS files weren't installed.
They should have the usual requirements and should work basically the same with i686 or P4 prerequisites.
I am interested in if they work on systems without SSE2 (Pentium III or earlier or old Athlons), a previous i686 build for some reason crashed for someone with a SSE2 error, which shouldn't happen

Paul Smedley:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on June 09, 2022, 05:55:08 pm ---Hi Neil, they're built with the system GCC 9.2.0, Paul's latest GCC builds can't link xul.dll.

--- End quote ---
I wonder how hard it is to get mozilla building here so I can try and fix this....

Remind me of the error again,or ideally, open a ticket at https://mantis.smedley.id.au

Dave Yeo:
it's not that hard to get it to build, assuming you're using RPM/YUM. For your environment, Python might be a problem. It creates a virtual environment to install all the Python packages it uses. Bitwise had instructions on Github, not quite how I do it but a good list of the dependencies.
I'll revisit the build and catch the actual error and open an issue. Also need to double check that I've pushed all my commits, takes forever to do a commit due to the couple of GB of source.

Dave Yeo:
BTW, there is also an i686 build of Firefox at https://mozilla-os2.sourceforge.io/

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