783095 - Make Mozilla build/run on IOS

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Oleg Romashin (:romaxa)]

I think we should take all recent patches fixes for IOS and make fennec/gecko build and run on IOS out of mozilla-central.

After that we could test and measure performance and figure out possibilities of writing native support for IOS.

Not sure if component correct for this bug, fix me if not

Comment 1

[Tatiana Meshkova (:tatiana)]

Here is something to start from:
http://hg.mozilla.org/users/tanya.meshkova_gmail.com/ios-patches/

It is the clone of http://hg.mozilla.org/users/dougt_mozilla.com/arcticfox-patches/ + bug 682873 ipc-ios patch, rebased against one month old mozilla-central.
Plus there are some hacks in order get simple xul app work on iOS with Gecko process running on remote Linux machine.

Comment 2

[Tatiana Meshkova (:tatiana)]

The first try with iOS sdk6.0: http://hg.mozilla.org/users/tanya.meshkova_gmail.com/ios-patches/rev/3ad68a28303c

It builds. Didn't run it on device yet.

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

I pulled a fresh mozilla-central and had to do minor patch unbitrotting, but also hit this error:

In file included from /Users/mfinkle/source/mozilla-ios/mozilla/widget/uikit/nsWidgetFactory.mm:49:
/Users/mfinkle/source/mozilla-ios/mozilla/widget/uikit/nsWindow.h:131:16: warning: 'nsWindow::CaptureRollupEvents' hides overloaded virtual function
      [-Woverloaded-virtual]
    NS_IMETHOD CaptureRollupEvents(nsIRollupListener *aListener,
               ^
../../dist/include/nsIWidget.h:1214:16: note: hidden overloaded virtual function 'nsIWidget::CaptureRollupEvents' declared here
    NS_IMETHOD CaptureRollupEvents(nsIRollupListener* aListener, bool aDoCapture) = 0;
               ^
/Users/mfinkle/source/mozilla-ios/mozilla/widget/uikit/nsWidgetFactory.mm:52:32: error: allocating an object of abstract class type 'nsWindow'
NS_GENERIC_FACTORY_CONSTRUCTOR(nsWindow)
                               ^
../../dist/include/mozilla/ModuleUtils.h:27:16: note: expanded from macro 'NS_GENERIC_FACTORY_CONSTRUCTOR'
    inst = new _InstanceClass();                                              \
               ^
../../dist/include/nsIWidget.h:1214:16: note: unimplemented pure virtual method 'CaptureRollupEvents' in 'nsWindow'
    NS_IMETHOD CaptureRollupEvents(nsIRollupListener* aListener, bool aDoCapture) = 0;
               ^

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Bug 701760 changed the signature of CaptureRollupEvents. Fixing that locally and continuing my build...

Comment 5

[Oleg Romashin (:romaxa)]

I guess in order to avoid additional troubles it is better to use http://hg.mozilla.org/users/tanya.meshkova_gmail.com/ios-patches/diff/3ad68a28303c/changeset
;)

Comment 6

[Tatiana Meshkova (:tatiana)]

I don't have any ios6.0 compatible device a the moment. Before I used ios4.1 sdk to build fennec and jailbroken iPad1 running 5.0.1 to run fennec. This is how I've installed it that time:

1. Here is Fennec desktop file I've used: http://hg.mozilla.org/users/tanya.meshkova_gmail.com/ios-patches/raw-file/3ad68a28303c/Fennec.app/Info.plist
2. <iPad># mkdir /Applications/Fennec.app
3. <desktop/mozilla-central>$ scp .hg/patches/Fennec.app/Info.plist root@<device>:/Applications/Fennec.app/
4. <desktop/mozilla-central>$ scp -r <obj-dir>/dist/bin/* root@<device>:/Applications/Fennec.app/
5. reboot iPad in order to see Fennec icon

Comment 7

[Tatiana Meshkova (:tatiana)]

btw, when running from terminal widget doesn't get activated. So, Info.plist is necessary.

Comment 8

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I had a patch in my queue for building an app bundle for Firefox (desktop, not fennec):
http://hg.mozilla.org/users/dougt_mozilla.com/arcticfox-patches/file/b0e8e163d49b/browser-uikit

Comment 9

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component