User:Cgomes7/Firefox Build

Lab 1 - Firefox Build

Resources

• Build Documentation
• 7-zip

Steps

- Check Firefox build prerequisites for the OS you will be using. I was using Windows 7. Windows Prerequisites

- Download the latest MozillaBuild package. This package contains other software that will be needed to successfully build Firefox.

- Install MozillaBuild. Default location is C:\mozilla-build.

- Run the one of the following batch files. In my case I am using visual studio 2010, so I lauched C:\mozilla-build\start-msvc10.bat.

start-msvc8.bat (VS 2005)

start-msvc9.bat (VS 2008)

start-msvc10.bat (VS 2010)

- Download the source code for the release version you would like to build. In this case, I downloaded the source code for Firefox 4.0b9