Changes

The lab machines have already been set-up In order to use MSVC 8 and build Mozilla from source you must create a build environment. On Windows, this must include [ftphttp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-1.02.exe MozillaBuild Mozilla Build (1.02 or newer)]and MSVC 8. You Once installed (and these are already installed int he lab) you only need to run '''Mozillastart-Build MSVC 8msvc8.bat''' (there is a link on the desktop) to begin (i.e., you shouldn't need to install anything). On Linux, just install the standard development tools and libraries (e.g., on Fedora, use "yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' 'Development Libraries' 'GNOME Software Development'").

# Create If on Windows on a lab machine, create a directory called '''C:\ff''' to hold the source-- if on Linux in the lab, use the '''/tmp''' directory, or your home directory on your own system.

# Check-out the Firefox code from '''CVS''' into C:\ff the appropriate directory ([http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_Source_Code_%28CVS%29 instructions are here]). You can use either of the following CVSROOT values:

## Set the following environment variable to turn-off assertion dialogs, and run Firefox as follows (NOTE: --no-remote allows for another version of the browser to be run at the same time, and -Profilemanager allows you to choose/create a new profile so you don't corrupt your default profile):

## Run the browser as follows:<br /><code>C:\ff\mozilla\objdir\dist\bin\firefox -Profilemanager --no-remote</code>

* [ftphttp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-1.02.exe MozillaBuild 1.0 2 for Win32] ([http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/tests/MozillaBuildSetup-1.1.exe version 1.1 is also available])