2006-09-30

Summary: mozilla.dev.tech.xpcom - Sept 30- Oct 5, 2006

Announcements

• Build a xpcom component on Mac OS X

• Benjamin Smedberg confirmed that this tutorial https://www.iosart.com/firefox/xpcom/ is misleading as it uses the standalone glue (-DXPCOM_GLUE) for components, which is not recommended.

• Developers should use this sample instead: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XPCOM_Glue

Discussions

• Dynamic load overlay

• A short discussion about the possibilities of loading and unloading xul overlay runtime

• Reading binary data from file

• Discusses about the code to read binary data from file

• How to build xpcom component on Mac OS X

• Discusses about the Make file code used to build xpcom components on Mac OS X successfully

Meetings

None during this week.