1006209 - Remove mistakenly referenced projects from Android Eclipse projects

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: Android Studio and Gradle Integration, defect)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

This is an error in the Eclipse project configurations.  You'll need to have Eclipse configured; see http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2014/02/14/getting-started-with-the-android-eclipse-build-backend-for-fennec/ for how to do that.

Some of the generated libraries are marked as referenced when they should only be included.

The libraries are FennecResources, FennecResourcesBranding, FennecResourcesGenerated, and FennecResourcesCrashReporter.

You can see the lines where they are marked as "referenced" by the main Fennec project around

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/base/moz.build#561

You'll need to remove the bad referenced_projects there.  When you've done that, the lines that say

[2014-05-05 17:31:41 - FennecResources] Could not find FennecResources.apk!
[2014-05-05 17:31:41 - FennecResourcesBranding] Could not find FennecResourcesBranding.apk!
[2014-05-05 17:31:41 - FennecResourcesGenerated] Could not find FennecResourcesGenerated.apk!

in Eclipse will have gone away!

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Nick Alexander :nalexander from comment #0)
> This is an error in the Eclipse project configurations.  You'll need to have
> Eclipse configured; see
> http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2014/02/14/getting-started-with-the-android-
> eclipse-build-backend-for-fennec/ for how to do that.
> 
> Some of the generated libraries are marked as referenced when they should
> only be included.
> 
> The libraries are FennecResources, FennecResourcesBranding,
> FennecResourcesGenerated, and FennecResourcesCrashReporter.
> 
> You can see the lines where they are marked as "referenced" by the main
> Fennec project around
> 
> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/base/moz.
> build#561
> 
> You'll need to remove the bad referenced_projects there.  When you've done
> that, the lines that say

... and regenerated with |mach build-backend -b=AndroidEclipse|, and refreshed and cleaned the build in Fennec, and re-launched Fennec from Eclipse...

Comment 2

[Srikar Ananthula [:srikar]]

Hi Nick,

Can I work on this bug ?

Comment 3

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Srikar Ananthula [:srikar] from comment #2)
> Hi Nick,
> 
> Can I work on this bug ?

Absolutely!  First steps are to get Fennec building and get Eclipse configured.  See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android#Building_Fennec for the first part and the blog post linked above for the second.

Comment 4

[Srikar Ananthula [:srikar]]

Hi Nick , I am working on other bug !! may be u can assign this to others !! Thanks !

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This bug is open to anyone.

Comment 6

[Varun Raj]

Hi,Can i work on this bug.

Comment 7

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

Hi, Varun - you certainly can. Have you got an Eclipse environment set up to build Firefox?

Comment 8

[Varun Raj]

Dear Mike i tried  setting up the Eclipse environment was unable to do it due to slow net speed. So i am sorry i wont be able to work on this.

Comment 9

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

I'm sorry to hear that, though I certainly understand. Eclipse can be a beast.

We have a few other bugs that are relatively lightweight, but also good starting points. Please take a look at bug 994651, bug 1005910 and bug 1008626 - they're well-scoped and should be easy to get started on.

Comment 10

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Attachment: Remove mistakenly referenced projects from Android Eclipse projects. r=bnicholson

bnicholson, I know you were using Eclipse for a while.  Feel free to
rubber-stamp or redirect (to liuche?) if you don't want to review.

Comment 11

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/d4e013191816

Comment 12

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d4e013191816