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=Problems and Solutions=
<big><b>Problem: To build the installer makensis is required in your path</b></big>
The very first problem I encountered after I started to build took me merely a couple minutes to solve thanks to my great old friend [http://www.google.com Google]. The command prompt spurted out this error message:
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<big><b>Solution: To build the installer makensis is required in your path</b></big>
I found my solution on a [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=92495&start=1320&sid=ad7fac8c3bc80a7373a0bf8957a15971 forum]. Basically I just added "ac_add_options --disable-installer" to my .mozconfig file.
<big><b>Problem: "target `c' doesn't match the target pattern" error</b></big>
The next problem I encountered was a little trickier. The error code was:
I tried various solutions (one of them being: hunted for an older version of Cygwin to install) but my build still failed. After several unsuccessful attempts, I consulted [[User:Sancus|Andrei Hajdukewycz]] for a solution, and the miracle happened, Firefox was then successfully built!!
<big><b>Solution to "target `c' doesn't match the target pattern" error</b></big>
*Install Cywgin from [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites#GNU_Tools_for_Microsoft_Windows_.28Cygwin.29 here]
*Download [http://cygwin.paracoda.com/release/make/make-3.80-1.tar.bz2 Make 3.80]
