Compile with ICC

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October 3, 2008 1:00 AM PDT


Here's some helpful suggestions for compiling the Midbrowser with the Intel® C++ Compiler.

To build with ICC you need to do the following:

1) You need to define the following variables:

export CC=icc

export CXX=icpc

export LD=xild

export AR=xiar

2) You need to modify the configure file to comment out the following line (total of 3 occurrences):

"WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS='-Werror'"

3) You need to remove "NS_FASTCALL" from the files nsRuleNode.h and nsStyleContext.h in layout/style directory. This works around a runtime bug in ICC.

4) Add the following options to your mozconfig:

ac_add_options -enable-system-cairo

ac_add_options -enable-cpp-rtti

You should be able to build with ICC with the above steps.