Difference between revisions of "Assignment 1 Building FireFox"

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* Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
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* '''Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
* Visual Studio  .Net 2003 with Visual C++  included
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* '''Visual Studio  .Net 2003 with Visual C++  included
* Cygwin installed with the following packages  
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* '''Cygwin installed with the following packages  
## ''' ash -- UNIX-like command line interpreter shell (Base category)
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** 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)  
 
** 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)  
 
** diffutils -- file comparison utility (Base category)  
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** unzip -- zip file extraction (Archive category)  
 
** unzip -- zip file extraction (Archive category)  
 
** zip -- zip file creation (Archive category)
 
** zip -- zip file creation (Archive category)
# moztools package contains binaries and libraries necessary to build mozilla
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* '''moztools
# CVS source control system used by Mozilla.  Downloading the tar balls from Mozilla’s FTP sites can be used also for obtaining the Fire Fox source code.
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** package contains binaries and libraries necessary to build mozilla
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* ''' CVS  
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** source control system used by Mozilla.  Downloading the tar balls from Mozilla’s FTP sites can be used also for obtaining the Fire Fox source code.

Revision as of 10:34, 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 Fire Fox source code.