The Unofficial TenFourFox Development Toolkit

[pipetogrep]

Curious , Which system did you use to compile ?

G4. Sonnet Dual 1.8 GH is

@pipetogrep You are correct the TenFourFox_build is indeed a standalone.app. I'm just use to building firefox varients using ./mach build, ./mach run, and ./mach package (the proper way). I forgot TFF uses a non-standard procedure. My bad. Carry on.

@Melchieor My slowest G5. 1.6ghz single cpu w/4gb ram.

understood. I’d love to learn how to start compiling ArcticFox and other variants soon. Could you point me to any docs?

 

[wicknix]

Sure, kind of... Scroll down towards the readme portion of the arcticfox github page for the basics. Also check out these links for needed packages on linux and windows. It's getting harder to find the old docs as mozilla is slowly deleting them.

Cheers

 

[Bruninho]

It's getting harder to find the old docs as mozilla is slowly deleting them.

internet wayback machine to the rescue!

 

[Macbookprodude]

Sure, kind of... Scroll down towards the readme portion of the arcticfox github page for the basics. Also check out these links for needed packages on linux and windows. It's getting harder to find the old docs as mozilla is slowly deleting them.

Cheers

Mozilla has no right to delete them.. they should archive them. The good news is with way back machine, they are still all there.

 

[Macbookprodude]

internet wayback machine to the rescue!

I was going to say that !

 

[wicknix]

Mozilla has no right to delete them..

Unfortunately they do. It's their product, their website, their docs. They can do whatever they want with it.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Unfortunately they do. It's their product, their website, their docs. They can do whatever they want with it.

I suppose, but with wayback machine the docs will always be there. They can’t stop that. Back in 2000 when I browsed the internet on OS 9, I ran into their site by chance and at the time they stated their goal was to archive from mid 1999s the web and beyond. They were right

 

[pipetogrep]

UPDATED 4/20/2021 - NEW VERSION!

• Now uses Git to download the source code. This will allow you keep your source code changes intact if you use the option to pull the latest code.
• Added installation checks to check for OS X 10.4.11 and Xcode 2.5
• Scripts for this package can be found at https://github.com/llamallama/tenfourfox-toolkit-scripts

 

[pipetogrep]

UPDATED 4/28/2021 - NEW VERSION!

• Fixes issue where the script gets stuck in an infinite loop and never finishes.
• Fixes issue where the Automator script does not handle spaces in paths correctly.

 

[Project Alice]

The only PPC machine I have is a PowerBook G4 Titanium 1Ghz - certainly given how extensive the compiling of the code will take, I guess a 1Ghz titanium won’t work ?

Well, I plan to DONATE my G5 quad to Tobias so he can keep LWK alive.. Mac Pro won’t compile PPC code.

A G5 is a PPC machine, is it not?

 

[Project Alice]

Cool, thank you @pipetogrep !
I can’t wait to try this out. It would be a good spot for me to learn how to work with software like this.
I also can never get MacPorts to build anything other than Neofetch so this script should hopefully fix that.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Hello everyone,

due to an issue elsewhere in macrumors, I was I. Time out for a week - did I miss anything with regards to any new tenfourfox information ?

 

[pipetogrep]

Good news! We now have a functioning Leopard version of the toolkit! Thanks @kencu for pointing me in the right direction.

Do note that builds created on Leopard will not work on Tiger. I'm not sure why that is as the compile flags and config options target 10.4 but right now I'm just happy that it works.

 

[barracuda156]

Well, I plan to DONATE my G5 quad to Tobias so he can keep LWK alive.. Mac Pro won’t compile PPC code.

It may: http://maniacsvault.net/articles/powerpccross
Though I cannot verify that at present.

 

[TzunamiOSX]

Started compiling on a G5 2004 Dual 2 Ghz at 15:30 (now it is 16:00) german time. We will see how long it takes.

 

[TzunamiOSX]

double post

 

[pipetogrep]

@wicknix I guess I better start adding the option to build Interweb, eh?

 

[wicknix]

I have a script for that made you can use. I just modified your TFF script. It's linked at the bottom of interwebs main github page.

 

[TzunamiOSX]

TFF building is done, around 3 hours later 😊

 

[pipetogrep]

I have a script for that made you can use. I just modified your TFF script. It's linked at the bottom of interwebs main github page.

I'm thrilled that you're using it! You may want to update to the latest version. It has some fixes since I release that one. For example, it will try an infinite number of times and ask if you want to try again on failure and it now handles applying patches to allow it to build on Leopard.

 

[barracuda156]

Good news! We now have a functioning Leopard version of the toolkit! Thanks @kencu for pointing me in the right direction.

Do note that builds created on Leopard will not work on Tiger. I'm not sure why that is as the compile flags and config options target 10.4 but right now I'm just happy that it works.

Does it work on Snow Leo (PPC)?

 

[pipetogrep]

Does it work on Snow Leo (PPC)?

No clue. Feel free to test.

 

[pipetogrep]

One more update. I updated the packages for the Tiger version. It includes updates for all included Macports. I also reduced the download size for both the Leopard and Tiger version by about 1GB by clearing out the build cache and distfiles.

 

[pipetogrep]

What are the rules on editing the original post in this thread? It looks like I can't anymore.

NM. I see that posts have a time limit of 262800 mins which is about 182.5 days. I was hoping to post future updates to the original post.

 

[Amethyst1]

Try making the first post a WikiPost (anyone will be able to edit it then though). This should get rid of the time limit. I can edit WikiPosts made three years ago.