Building Chickenfoot

To build Chickenfoot, you need both Ant and Python installed and available from the command line. (Python is currently used to run calcdeps.py from the Closure Library project, but the dependency on calcdeps.py will eventually be removed in favor of plovr.)

The simplest way to build the Chickenfoot extension is to run the following command from the root of the repository:

ant xpi

This will produce chickenfoot-X.X.X.xpi in the build directory where X.X.X is the next version of Chickenfoot. (Currently, a build is fairly slow, taking 20-30 seconds on a modern machine, so this needs to be improved.)

Once you generate the XPI, you can open it in Firefox like any other file by using File->Open. Firefox will ask you to restart once you have installed Chickenfoot.