On Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 4:07:22 PM UTC+1, Dave Townsend wrote:
> As of Firefox 41 we no longer support loading binary components from
> add-ons.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 5:44 AM, <ales.rozman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I am developing firefox addon with a binary component, and until recently
> > i was using xulrunner-sdk for linking with required libs. As of version 42
> > xulrunner-sdk is no longer published. I read in a blog post (
> > http://hearsum.ca/blog/mozilla-will-stop-producing-automated-builds-of-xulrunner-after-the-410-cycle.html)
> > that mozilla will publish gecko-sdk with every release.
> >
> > I am wondering where is gecko-sdk published for version 42. I checked on
> > https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/ but couldn't find it.
> >
> > In the meantime i built firefox myself from source (on windows). With the
> > libs in /dist/sdk/lib and headers in /dist/include i was able to compile
> > and build my addon.
> >
> > It would be nice if sdk would be published, so i wouldn't have to build
> > firefox myself for every version and every os.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Aleš
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I'm using js-ctypes to load and use binary (dll), so it's not a xpcom 
component. As i understand that is still allowed. Well it works on FF42 anyway.
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