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=Introduction=
 
=Introduction=
  I first started off building Firefox on my Windows XP machine using Visual Studio.Net 2003. Unfortunately I had some problems along the way and solved them by using Google.com and by asking for help in the IRC chat.  When I finally built Firefox I tried to run it but wasn’t successful because it crashed on me.  So I tried building it on two other hard drives and I got the same error.  Since I was short on time I decided to give Linux a try and see if I would be more successful with building Firefox on a Linux operating system.
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   I was finally able to build Firefox successfully on Ubuntu, which took me about one night to do.
 
   I was finally able to build Firefox successfully on Ubuntu, which took me about one night to do.
 
This document will discuss the build requirements such as hardware and software that I needed in order to build Firefox successfully.  I will then focus on the steps that took me to fully complete the build and any problems that I encountered along the way.  I will end it off with some useful resources that I found and used throughout the process of the build and then talk about my experience  with my first open source build.
 
This document will discuss the build requirements such as hardware and software that I needed in order to build Firefox successfully.  I will then focus on the steps that took me to fully complete the build and any problems that I encountered along the way.  I will end it off with some useful resources that I found and used throughout the process of the build and then talk about my experience  with my first open source build.
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Revision as of 21:19, 17 September 2006

!!!!WORK IN PROGRESS!!!!

Introduction

 I was finally able to build Firefox successfully on Ubuntu, which took me about one night to do.

This document will discuss the build requirements such as hardware and software that I needed in order to build Firefox successfully. I will then focus on the steps that took me to fully complete the build and any problems that I encountered along the way. I will end it off with some useful resources that I found and used throughout the process of the build and then talk about my experience with my first open source build.


Build

Hardware

Intel Pentium 3 Processor 450 Mhz
256 MB RAM
40 Gigabyte Hard Drive
Ubuntu 

Software

Before I could install any packages or libraries I had to install build-essential, which is the synaptic package manager (i.e. Library Manager). Once I got this installed I looked at Linux Build Prerequisites to find out which libraries I needed. The following are a list of the libraries that I installed.

  • CVS
  • GTK (2.0)
  • Libxt-dev
  • Libidl-dev
  • Make


The Build

info

Steps took to complete build

info

Problems Encountered

info


Screenshot

Coming soon!

Conclusion

Info