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Alright, so after a lot of fighting with Windows Vista I finally caved in and built Mozilla on Windows XP instead. Firefox built and ran on the first try on XP. The problem I had with Vista wasn't the build of Firefox itself. The start batch files from Mozilla Build simply refused to work. I had to do a lot of registry editing to enter the keys it was looking for (the path to my Visual Studio was not in the registry where Mozilla Build was looking). Eventually I hit a wall:

"Unexpected \Microsoft"

Great... no idea how to fix that.

I'll fight with Vista later. Here's my build from XP using the following mozconfig:

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-firefox <br />
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser <br />
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ac_add_options --enable-application=browser <br />
ac_add_options --disable-optimize <br />
ac_add_options --enable-debug <br />
ac_add_options --disable-tests <br />
ac_add_options --disable-vista-sdk-requirements <br />

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Computer Build Information: <br /><br />

- CPU 3.0 ghz Intel Processor Single Core <br />
- Geforce 6800GT (Probably not relevant) <br />
- 1 gig of DDR2 memory <br />
- Windows XP Operating System <br />
- Visual Studio 2005 <br />
- No -j command used <br />
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Total Build Time: 53 Minutes