User:Minooz/OSD600/buildFF

Build Firefox

For building firefox I started the process following the instruction on annasob's blog and from Mozilla Developing Center(MDC) Here are the information that were useful for me to get the set of instructions and to figure out how to deal with errors. One thing that was really helpful to me was annasob's tip on separating mozilla-build (where the build package is installed) and mozilla-central(where the source is cloned from Mozilla repository). I didn't figure out why it was so slow though on both Vista and Win 7.

• Steps to build firefox

I followed the instructions on annasob's blog on how to build firefox on different platforms, also took a look at Build instructions @ developer.mozilla.org.

First, I tried to build firefox on Vista:

Intel(R) Processor D CPU 2.17 GHz

2GB DDR2 memory

Windows Vista 32bit

Visual Studio 2010

and this was my .mozconfig:

. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/objdir-ff-release

mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j2"

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser

ac_add_options --enable-application=browser

ac_add_options --disable-optimize

ac_add_options --enable-debug

Then I started to build it on Windows 7:

Intel(R) Processor D CPU 3.20 GHz

4GB DDR2 memory

Windows 7 64bit

Visual Studio 2008

I tried to build based on the same .mozconfig file, but the first error I got was related to SDK. I needed to upgrade SDK version based on theserecommendations to SDK 7, and the .Net Framework to 4. Also I needed to change the SDK version in the SDK configuration tool to 7.1.

At the end, the build was successfully done after 2 hours on Win 7 and on Vista it's not completed yet after more than 4 hours!