User:Mdsouza/Assignment 01: Build the Fox

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Overview

The way I decided to proceed with this assignment was to read all the information out there about how the build process works before trying anything out. I did this to decrease my chances that I do not fall into a "try, fail, try again" scenario. However, as it came to be, finding a bug is inevitable. :(

In this report below I mentioned the tools one needs, steps I took, and problems that I tackled to get me through the processing of building firefox 1.5.0.7 without using CVS!

Computer Specs

  • Intel Pentium IV 1.7 GHz
  • 1GB of RAM
  • 40GB Hard Drive
  • Windows XP Professional

Steps Took To Build the Fox

Did The Boring Stuff

Here are some of the sites I spent the most time reading:

Downloaded And Installed The Tools

When installing Cygwin the following packages need to be selected: 

* 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 -- dependency analyzer for software builds (Devel category) (not mandatory if the version is 3.81)
* 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)
  • Make 3.80 (to overwrite the 3.81 version from the Cygwin install)

Once MAKE is downloaded and saved on your hard drive: 

1. Use WinRAR to extract the file to any folder of your choosing.
2. Copy the make.exe file located within the usr/bin folder and overwrite the make.exe located in C:\cygwin\bin

Once downloaded, extract the contents to any location. Remember the location though as you will need to edit your batch file with this location.

The Build Begins

Problems And Solutions

Problem 1

Problem 2

Problem 3

Apendix

Batch File

.mozconfig File

Voila!

Conclusion

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