(Should be send to Packaging, but I can't find it). What I was thinking today is that I'd love to build some XUL applications, but I don't want people to have to install a complete Mozilla. I could use some type of embedding widget and embed Gecko in a window, but I don't know how to program in C very well. What I do know how to do is program in XUL / JS / CSS, like a lot of web builders. I think Mozilla should release some sort of build which only contains a very simple window. People could then write their own applications in XUL and release them as regular applications, launching them like ./mozilla -chrome chrome://mysampleapp/content/mysampleapp.xul If someone can make this build, I volunteer to write a tutorial for people on how to get an application up and running.

Adding granrose Is this a Build Config issue?

yes it is. Granrose, don't we already provide such a skeleton build somewhere?

We already have "embed" builds available on the ftp site and there's a separate effort that's working on an embedding SDK. Surely, one of those would cover this case. Marking invalid.

Any links or reading materials on the embedding SDK?

verified. check out the n.p.m.embedding newsgroup on news.mozilla.org.

Sending this bug to scc@mozilla.org based on discussions this past weekend at Mozilla Conference.

Scott said he'd take this one, based on discussions this past weekend.

mike potter pointed out that this overlaps with the XRE project I'm trying to get going. see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/xre.html feel free to re-assign to me if you agree. or, scc, ping me directly if you are interested in XRE.

how about both... I'll re-assign to you, and find out how best to cooperate with you and XRE at the same time?

XULRunner is here.