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== Steps to Build FireFox == | == Steps to Build FireFox == | ||
| − | + | # Download and installed Windows Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK | |
| − | + | # Make sure the Visual C++ module for Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 is installed if not downloaded it from the acs.senecac.on.ca website. | |
| − | + | # Install NSIS | |
| − | + | # Install Cygwin and download the packages( Please see the[ http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites] for the list | |
| − | + | # Follow the link on the Windows Build Preq and download make-3.80-1.tar.bz2 | |
| − | + | # Download and look at the Cygwin.bat file from the Windows Build Prerequsites web page. | |
| − | + | ## 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 | ||
Revision as of 11:15, 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 to Build FireFox
- Download and installed Windows Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK
- Make sure the Visual C++ module for Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 is installed if not downloaded it from the acs.senecac.on.ca website.
- Install NSIS
- Install Cygwin and download the packages( Please see the[ http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites] for the list
- Follow the link on the Windows Build Preq and download make-3.80-1.tar.bz2
- Download and look at the Cygwin.bat file from the Windows Build Prerequsites web page.
- 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
