User:Jsdoodna

My name is Joshua Doodnauth, and I am currently in the seventh semester BSD program at Seneca College

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Name: Joshua Doodnauth

• • Currently in 3rd Year Bachelor of Software Development Program at Seneca@York

Email: jsdoodna _at learn _dot senecac _dot on _dot ca
Blog: jsdoodnauth.wordpress.com

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XULRunner Application Packager

Labs

Building Firefox

System: AMD Athlon64 3700+ @2.2GHz; 3.25GB RAM; 1.5TB Hard Drive

OS: WindowsXP Media Center SP2

Software: Visual Studio 2008

Step followed in Firefox Build Instructions:

1. Downloaded and installed the Microsoft Windows Vista SDK

2. Downloaded and install the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK

3. Downloaded and executed MozillaBuild 1.3 package

4. Executed 'start-msvc9.bat' (since I have Visual Studio 2008)

5. "Clone" the repository using:

hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ src
cd src

This took me about 15-20 minutes, because it has to download a lot of files

6. Generated a .mozconfig file (I did it in vi):

. $topsrc/browser/config/mozconfig
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/ff-opt
ac_add_options --disable-tests

7. To build use the command:

make -f client.mk build

IT DIDN'T WORK! I received an error about 1 minute in, telling me 'System header oleacc.idl is not available", luckly it gave me a link to a website with the solution. Basically its a bug in the Windows Vista version of the Microsoft platform SDK, which forgot to include the file. The file is for accessibility, and the fix was to use a different SDK, or disable it by adding a command to the .mozconfig file

ac_add_options --disable-accessibility

8. Ran the build command again...It worked!

9. Took 35 minutes to build

10. To run I used the command:

ff-opt/dist/bin/firefox -no-remote -profilemanage

BOOM Its up and running!