User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 When attempting to run xpidl from the gecko SDK for mozilla 1.7, xpidl fails because it cannot find the DLL libIDL-0.6.dll A search of the gecko-sdk directory reveals that this DLL doesn't exist in any other directory. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7/gecko-sdk-i586-pc-msvc-1.7.zip 2. Unzip it. 3. Add the bin directory of the SDK to your path. 4. Run xpidl from the command prompt. Actual Results: One gets an error message about the missing DLL libIDL-0.6.dll Expected Results: xpidl should run with no errors, and I assume output a help message or something.

Note that libIDL-0.6.dll doesn't exist in the gecko SDK for 1.8a either.

libidl as well glib-1.2.dll can be downloaded from the ftp site ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/ Make sure you get the right version for your compiler. And for those not using windows you can get these as regular packages. You can find more information under your specific platform build instructions. Maybe the installation instructions for the SDK needs to be updated to note this. I'll leave this open for now, to verify this, but otherwise this is invalid.

> Maybe the installation instructions for the SDK needs to be updated to note > this. I'll leave this open for now, to verify this, but otherwise this is invalid. Where are the installation instructions for the gecko SDK? I can't find any instructions on either a web-page or in the binary package itself. A simple README file in the binary release would be extremely useful.

this isn't a bug in xpidl. at best it's a bug in packaging or documentation.

bug 242870 would fix this

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This is real, and statically linking libidl/glib would be really nice.

agreed. or at least don't ship xpidl.exe in the SDK if you know it's broken anyway

no longer use libIDL now since we switch to pyidl.