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==Problems==
My problem was failing to use the right verison of make to build firefox.
<pre> make[6]: *** [_xpidlgen/nsIContextMenuListener.h] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/firefox-objdir/embedding/browser/webBrowser'
make[5]: *** [export] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/firefox-objdir/embedding/browser'
make[4]: *** [export] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/firefox-objdir/embedding'
make[3]: *** [export_tier_gecko] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/firefox-objdir'
make[2]: *** [tier_gecko] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/firefox-objdir'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/firefox-objdir'
make: *** [build] Error 2
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[[User:elichak|elichak]] told me the site that has an older verison of cygwin.
Download cygwinBasic [http://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptII4.0/cygwinBasic.exe here] and install it to a temp directory. Then copy make from the temp directory and paste it into the Cygwin dirctory.
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==Conclusion==
I was expecting a lot of problems with the Mozilla Firefox build. This It turned out to be better then I expected as building on Windows XP professional sp2 proved to be very easy and straight forward as long as you follow the instruction closely and make sure all the version are correct. The build problems problem I encountered allowed me to understand more about the build system and how that the slightest version change can break the build.
