Building Prism is similar to building McCoy, but there are some differences which is why a separate build documentation article. To build prism, you must first build the xulrunner tree, and then build prism.
Make sure you have the required build prerequisites.
Grab the latest release source code from Mozilla's ftp site. Extract the source code, and you should have a directory called mozilla/.
Change directory into mozilla/ and checkout the latest prism code :
cd mozilla/ svn co https://svn.mozilla.org/projects/webrunner/trunk prismmk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=xulrunner mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/mozilla-obj ac_add_options --enable-application=xulrunner ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --enable-optimize ac_add_options --disable-tests ac_add_options --disable-javaxpcom
Build xulrunner :
make -f client.mk build
Once the build is done, there will be a directory called mozilla-obj. Go into the prism/ directory and create a .mozconfig file
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/mozilla-obj/prism ac_add_options --with-libxul-sdk=../dist ac_add_options --enable-application=prism
You need to define an environment variable to point the build to the new .mozconfig. This variable is called MOZCONFIG
export MOZCONFIG=$PWD/.mozconfig #this should point to mozilla/prism/.mozconfig
Go back to the mozilla/ directory and do another build, this time, prism will get built
cd ../ make -f client.mk build
Congratulations, you have just built prism. You can now find the executable in mozilla-obj/prism/dist/bin/prism. If you want to create a package, go to mozilla-obj/prism and call
make package
You will find the package in dist/