Standalone xulrunner-stub project

This project continues to maintain xulrunner-stub sources extracted from mozilla's repository and makes it built against Firefox SDK. Background: mozilla had removed xulrunner sources from their repository (issue).

Build for Win32

0. Install MS Visual Studio 2013 (Express for Desktop or Community Editions are OK).

1. Clone this project.

2. Download Firefox SDK. e.g. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-aurora/firefox-47.0a2.en-US.win32.sdk.zip . Unzip it in the project directory, and make sure the directory name is firefox-sdk.

3. Open msvc/xulrunner-stub.sln with Visual Studio, and build in release mode (debug mode doesn't work currently). If all is OK, you'll get msvc/Release/xulrunner-stub.exe.

Run your xulrunner app

Layout your xulrunner app like this:

<your_app_dir>
  xulrunner/            <- copy firefox's files here.
  xulrunner-stub.exe
  mozglue.dll           <- copy firefox's mozglue.dll here.
  application.ini
  ...

Notes

• You may use firefox acting as xulrunner.
• I'm not able to remove xulrunner-stub.exe's dependency on mozglue.dll so you have to place the latter under the same directory of the former.

Build for other platforms

Patches are welcome!

Source files' origin

• xulrunner/stub/nsXULStub.cpp: The main source file, was removed from mozilla's repository.
• xpcom/build/nsXPCOMPrivate.h: Missing from firefox sdk, so copied to this project.
• toolkit/xre/nsWindowsWMain.cpp: Ditto.