266564 - No need to include XPCOM.DLL in the Gecko SDK

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Darin Fisher]

There's no need to include XPCOM.DLL in the Gecko SDK.  Developers should get
XPCOM.DLL from the GRE or from a Mozilla release.  The Gecko SDK does not
include a runtime.  It is more like a -devel RPM package.  (Hey, maybe we should
make one of those?)

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

Attachment: v1 patch

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

fixed-on-trunk

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

I was hoping people could just grab one archive and have both the import
libraries they need to build their product|component as well as the libraries
needed in order to ship independently of a browser.

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

Right, that would be nice, but most of the runtime is missing from the current
Gecko SDK.  It seems that we already output the GRE into dist/gre, so we should
maybe just be packaging that.  I could see us including that in the SDK at some
point or provide it as a separate download.  Right now my aim is to take the
shortest steps necessary to just get something for people who have installed
Mozilla and want to develop components or embed it.

Comment 5

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

i understand.  xpcom should have its own distribution if people actually want
xpcom outside of the gecko.