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= Building Firefox =
== Building on Windows Vista or XP ==
Install Visual Studio:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700736.aspx
Get Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit Update for Windows Vista(even if you are using XP):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4377f86d-c913-4b5c-b87e-ef72e5b4e065&DisplayLang=en
Download and install Mozilla Build, a package of software prereqsprerequisites:
(If you get a message saying this application did not install properly then you should see a windows dialog giving you the option to re-install
with the 'correct settings'. After that all should be well.)
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-1.3.exe
Open a shell window by (on Vista right clicking click and using admin privileges):
(The example here is for Visual Studio 2005. The name of the bat file you use should match the directory that Visual Studio is installed in.)
c:\mozilla-build\start-msvc8.bat
