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I first started off building Firefox on my Windows XP machine using Visual Studio.Net 2003. Unfortunately I had some problems along the way and solved them by using Google.com and by asking for help in the IRC chat. When I finally built Firefox I tried to run it but wasn’t successful because it crashed on me. So I tried building it on two other hard drives and I got the same error. Since I was short on time I decided to give Linux a try and see if I would be more successful with building Firefox on a Linux operating system. | I first started off building Firefox on my Windows XP machine using Visual Studio.Net 2003. Unfortunately I had some problems along the way and solved them by using Google.com and by asking for help in the IRC chat. When I finally built Firefox I tried to run it but wasn’t successful because it crashed on me. So I tried building it on two other hard drives and I got the same error. Since I was short on time I decided to give Linux a try and see if I would be more successful with building Firefox on a Linux operating system. | ||
Revision as of 20:11, 17 September 2006
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Contents
Introduction
I first started off building Firefox on my Windows XP machine using Visual Studio.Net 2003. Unfortunately I had some problems along the way and solved them by using Google.com and by asking for help in the IRC chat. When I finally built Firefox I tried to run it but wasn’t successful because it crashed on me. So I tried building it on two other hard drives and I got the same error. Since I was short on time I decided to give Linux a try and see if I would be more successful with building Firefox on a Linux operating system.
I was finally able to build Firefox successfully on Ubuntu, which took me about one night to do.
This document will discuss the build requirements such as hardware and software that I needed in order to build Firefox successfully. I will then focus on the steps that took me to fully complete the build and any problems that I encountered along the way. I will end it off with some useful resources that I found and used throughout the process of the build and then talk about my experience with my first open source build.
Hardware Configuration
Intel Pentium 3 Processor 450 Mhz 256 MB RAM 40 Gigabyte Hard Drive Ubuntu
Software Installation
Info
The Build
info
Problems Encountered
info
Screenshot
Coming soon!
Conclusion
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