Roger,
You didn't say whether you've had any success building mozilla
from source which I recommend if you are going be writing XPCOM
components. Also, you can use the makefiles for existing components
as working examples to create a makefile for your own component.
Regards,
Rick
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> Hi,
>
> (Warning: question from an absolute xpcom beginner.....)
>
> I want to learn how to write xpcom components, so I found the HelloWorld
> example in the article "Extending Mozilla Or.....". So on my linux box
> installed M18 and created a the directory ~/mozilla/helloworld in which I
> created the idl file, the generated header file and the cpp files as in the
> article. Now how do I go on from here??? I assume I need a makefile which
> creates a shared library and compiles the main.cpp file. Is that all???
> Can anyone take me a step further....
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roger
