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James Boston is working on the Mozilla Developer Resource Kit.
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Building Firefox
Building on Windows Vista
Install Visual Studio: (The express version will work.)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700736.aspx
Get Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit Update for Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4377f86d-c913-4b5c-b87e-ef72e5b4e065&DisplayLang=en
Download and install Mozilla Build, a package of software prereqs: (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-1.2.exe
Open a shell window by right clicking 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
Get the makefile instructions to pull the source tree and put it in a directory called mozilla in your home directory: (This will create a mozilla directory in your root i.e C:\Users\YourName or whatever. If a directory called mozilla already exits, even if it's empty, it will cause an error.)
cd cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co mozilla/client.mk
Checkout the source:
cd ~/mozilla make -f client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
Create and open a hidden file called .mozconfig in your home directory:
notepad.exe ~/.mozconfig
Add the following lines to .mozconfig
# My first mozilla config mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-@CONFIG_GUESS@ . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig ac_add_options --disable-optimize ac_add_options --enable-debug ac_add_options --disable-static --enable-shared
Start the build (which will take AT LEAST one hour):
cd ~/mozilla make -f client.mk build
Once the build is finished you should set the following environment variable to turn-off assertion dialogs:
export XPCOM_DEBUG_BREAK=warn
When you run Firefox for the first time, create and select a new profile called "development" (or any name of your choice) to avoid corrupting your current profile. You can do this while running your current version of Firefox using these command line options:
~/mozilla/obj*/dist/bin/firefox -Profilemanager -no-remote
The finished build can be found in the ~/mozilla/obj*/dist/bin directory.
Run the file "mozilla" or "firefox", not the binary "mozilla-bin" or "firefox-bin".
For more detailed info about the windows build requirements visit Mozilla Developer Center.
For more detailed information about Mozilla building visit Real World Mozilla Build Lab.
Building on Ubuntu and Fedora
Install build pre-requisites for Fedora users:
su -c "yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' 'Development Libraries' 'GNOME Software Development'"
Install build pre-requisites for Ubuntu users:
sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get build-dep mozilla-firefox
Get the makefile instructions to pull the source tree and put it in a directory called mozilla in your home directory:
cd cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co mozilla/client.mk
Checkout the source:
cd ~/mozilla make -f client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
Create and open a hidden file called .mozconfig in your home directory:
gedit ~/.mozconfig
Add the following lines to .mozconfig
# My first mozilla config mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-@CONFIG_GUESS@ . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig ac_add_options --disable-optimize ac_add_options --enable-debug ac_add_options --disable-static --enable-shared
Start the build (which will take AT LEAST one hour):
cd ~/mozilla make -f client.mk build
Once the build is finished you should set the following environment variable to turn-off assertion dialogs:
export XPCOM_DEBUG_BREAK=warn
When you run Firefox for the first time, create and select a new profile called "development" (or any name of your choice) to avoid corrupting your current profile. You can do this while running your current version of Firefox using these command line options:
~/mozilla/obj*/dist/bin/firefox -Profilemanager -no-remote
The finished build can be found in the ~/mozilla/obj*/dist/bin directory.
Run the file "mozilla" or "firefox", not the binary "mozilla-bin" or "firefox-bin".
For more detailed information visit Real World Mozilla Build Lab.
Software
Open in Editor Extension
This extension will open source code files from http://mxr.mozilla.org in an editor on the users machine. Currently, this extension does not work with OS X, and only supports notepad.exe for Windows and gedit for Linux.
