User:Minooz/OSD600/buildFF

Build Firefox

• Links:

Real_World_Mozilla_Build_Mozilla_Lab

Mozilla Community

Build instructions @ developer.mozilla.org

Windows Prerequisites

Blogs:

Anna:annasob Blog1 - old blog

Scott:[1]

FAQ

Fall 2007

Fall 2010

DPS909

• Problems:

Windows SDK configuration

Needed to upgrade to Framework 4 and SDK 7

I followed the instructions on annasob's blog on how to build firefox on different platforms, also took a look at Build instructions @ developer.mozilla.org.

First, I tried to build firefox on Vista:

Intel(R) Processor D CPU 3.20 GHz

2GB DDR2 memory

Windows Vista 32bit

Visual Studio 2010

and this was my .mozconfig:

. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/objdir-ff-release

mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j2"

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser

ac_add_options --enable-application=browser

ac_add_options --disable-optimize

ac_add_options --enable-debug

Then I started to build it on Windows 7:

Intel(R) Processor D CPU 3.20 GHz

4GB DDR2 memory

Windows 7 64bit

Visual Studio 2008

I tried to build based on the same .mozconfig file, but the first error I got was related to SDK. I needed to upgrade SDK version based on theserecommendations to SDK 7, and then change the SDK version in the SDK configuration tool.

At the end, the build was successfully done after 2 hours on Win 7 and on Vista it's not completed yet after almost 4 hours!