Development:Building:Build Errors

Introduction

A breakdown of the common Camino build errors, what causes them, and how to resolve the error.

pbxcp: libpermissions.dylib: No such file or directory

Error message

In XCode 2.3:

Build target "Camino" of project "Camino" with configuration "Development" - (1 error)
Copying ../dist/bin/components/libpermissions.dylib - (1 error)
pbxcp: libpermissions.dylib: No such file or directory
Build failed (1 error)

Cause

You have enabled a static build of Camino in your .mozconfig and this is not recommended for development.

Solution

You have to remove the following lines from your .mozconfig

ac_add_options --disable-shared
ac_add_options --enable-static