Assignment 1 (yshen6)

Assignment 1 - build firefox

Introduction

My first step is search “how to build firefox on Windows” on Google. Then I followed the instructions on David Humphrey's website.

Software Installed

Install the compiler - Visual Studio.NET 2005
Install Cygwin with all packages required for building Mozilla:

  ash
  coreutils
  cvs
  diffutils
  findutils
  gawk
  grep
  libiconv
  make 3.80
  patchutils
  perl
  sed
  unzip
  zip

Create a directory c:\proj
Download and Extract Moztools to C:\proj\moztools

Steps to Complete the build

Setup environment variables and paths by creating a setup file: c:\proj\buildsetup.bat Copy and paste the given code(from David's website) to c:\proj\buildsetup.bat

@echo off

rem --- CVS Setup
SET CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot
SET CVS_RSH=ssh

rem --- Setup the paths to the moztools build libraries
set MOZ_TOOLS=C:\proj\moztools
set GLIB_PREFIX=%MOZ_TOOLS%
set LIBIDL_PREFIX=%MOZ_TOOLS%

rem --- Scrub these variables first
SET INCLUDE=
SET LIB=
SET PATH=C:\;C:\windows\system32;C:\windows\system32\wbem

rem --- Prepend cygwin
SET PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH%

rem --- Setup VC8 compiler environment vars
CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86

rem --- Add glib/libidl to build environment
SET PATH=%PATH%;%GLIB_PREFIX%;%GLIB_PREFIX%\bin
SET INCLUDE=%GLIB_PREFIX%\include;%INCLUDE%
SET LIB=%GLIB_PREFIX%\lib;%LIB%

rem --- moztools comes last after glib/libIDL
SET PATH=%PATH%;%MOZ_TOOLS%\bin

Run Cygwin and move into c:\proj directory Problem1 – I have no idea how to move my current directory to c:\proj in Cygwin

$ cd ../..
$ cd cygdrive/
$ cd c
$ cd proj