Mozilla Build Tricks: viewing preprocessed source
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008More in the occasional series of tricks you can do with the Mozilla build system.
Making Preprocessed Sources
If you have a compile error and you can’t figure out what macros are being expanded, you can make a preprocessed version of any C/C++ file:
$ cd $OBJDIR/some/directory $ make nsMyFilename.i
Using Doxygen to Generate Documentation
You can use the documentation-generation tool Doxygen to automatically generate interface/class/method documentation from the Mozilla sources.
$ cd $OBJDIR $ make documentation
Warning: doxygen isn’t especially precise. Your mileage may vary.
Displaying a Build Variable
Sometimes when hacking a Makefile it may not be obvious what the final value of a variable is. You can check this by using the echo-variable-% rule:
$ cd $OBJDIR/some/directory $ make echo-variable-EXTRA_DSO_LDOPTS
