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* Copied Cygwin.bat from the Windows Build Prerequsites web page at developer.mozilla.org and began modifying the file.
 
* Copied Cygwin.bat from the Windows Build Prerequsites web page at developer.mozilla.org and began modifying the file.
 
** Changed VCVARS=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat to point to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\bin\vcvars32.bat
 
** Changed VCVARS=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat to point to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\bin\vcvars32.bat
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** Checked to see that the MOZTOOLS variable was pointing to right directory
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** rename %CYGWINBASE%\bin\link.exe to glink.exe

Revision as of 11:01, 19 September 2006

Purpose

To boldly go where I have not gone before. In other words build the Firefox application by utilizing the necessary documentation provided by Mozilla and other resources.

Hardware

  • Intel Core Duo Processor @ 1.86GHz
  • 512 MB of RAM
  • 80 gig Samsung Hard Drive

Software

  • Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
  • Visual Studio .Net 2003 with Visual C++ included
  • Cygwin installed with the following packages
    • ash -- UNIX-like command line interpreter shell (Base category)
    • coreutils -- GNU core utilities (includes fileutils, install, sh-utils, and textutils) (Base category) cvs -- concurrent versions system (Devel category)
    • diffutils -- file comparison utility (Base category)
    • findutils (Base category)
    • gawk -- pattern matching language (Base and Interpretors categories)
    • grep -- text search tool (Base category)
    • libiconv -- character set conversion (Devel category)
    • make 3.80 (not 3.81!) -- dependency analyzer for software builds (Devel category)
    • patchutils -- a small collection of programs that operate on patch files (Devel category)
    • perl -- a scripting language used to control parts of the build (Interpreters category)
    • sed -- a search and replace language (Base category)
    • unzip -- zip file extraction (Archive category)
    • zip -- zip file creation (Archive category)
  • moztools
    • package contains binaries and libraries necessary to build mozilla
  • CVS
    • source control system used by Mozilla. Downloading the tar balls from Mozilla’s FTP sites can be used also for obtaining the FireFox source code.
  • Windows Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK
  • NSIS

Steps I took to Build FireFox

  • Downloaded and installed Windows Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK, moztools, NSIS and Visual Studio 2003
  • Installed Cygwin and packages
  • Copied Cygwin.bat from the Windows Build Prerequsites web page at developer.mozilla.org and began modifying the file.
    • Changed VCVARS=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat to point to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\bin\vcvars32.bat
    • Checked to see that the MOZTOOLS variable was pointing to right directory
    • rename %CYGWINBASE%\bin\link.exe to glink.exe