Lab 3: Mozilla Build
Result
Checking before install
This is the prerequisites checking
My Laptop's setting
- H/W
- CPU: Genuine Intel CPU T2250 @ 1.73GHz
- RAM: 512M (512M X 2)
- HDD: 30G free of 90G
- S/W
- Windows XP Pro. SP3
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
- .NET Framework 2.0
- Microsoft Windows SDK(s)
- MozillaBuild
Process
I did the easiest way of Mozilla Source Code via Mercurial
- Run batch file
C:\mozilla-build\start-msvc8.bat
- Install Autoconf
- Get the mozilla source code
hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ src
- Change current dir to src
cd src
- Configuration
echo 'ac_add_options --enable-application=browser' > .mozconfig
echo 'mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser' >> .mozconfig
- Bulid (need around 1Hr)
make -f client.mk build
- Run firefox
dist/bin/firefox -no-remote -profilemanager
Sept 16, 2008 Created