WORK IN PROGRESS
Aim
To build the Mozilla Firefox browser from source code.
Hypothesis
Apparatus
Hardware
AMD Athlon XP @ 1.82 GHz 512 MB RAM
Software
- Microsoft® Windows XP® Professional with Service Pack 2.
- Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET 2003® (with C++ module installed).(available from ACS: Disc 0 (Pre-requesite), Disc 1, Disc 2)
- Cygwin
- moztools
- Microsoft ® Windows Server® 2003 R2 Platform SDK
- NSIS Installer
- Make 3.80 (Needed to overwrite make 3.81 which is part of the Cygwin default install)
- 7-zip or similar archiving utility.
Method
Install all software in the default directory unless otherwise specified as it will save time and effort in the long run.
- Install Visual Studio .NET 2003 (with Visual C++ modules)
- Install Microsoft ® Windows Server® 2003 R2 Platform SDK
- Install Cygwin . Remember to install all the package binaries listed below as specified in the Windows Build Pre-requisites made available by the Mozilla Developer Center. To install a package simply expand the desired category and place a check in the bin check box. Source files are not required. Don't worry if you realize you made an error i.e. forgotten a required package. The Cygwin installer is smart enough to accomodate this situation. Simply re-run the Cygwin setup.exe and select the packages you want to add, remove or re-install).:
- ash -- UNIX-like command line interpreter shell (Base category)
- coreutils -- GNU core utilities (includes fileutils, install, sh-utils, and textutils) (Base category)
- cvs -- concurrent versions system (Devel category)
- diffutils -- file comparison utility (Base category)
- findutils (Base category)
- gawk -- pattern matching language (Base and Interpretors categories)
- grep -- text search tool (Base category)
- libiconv -- character set conversion (Devel category)
- make -- dependency analyzer for software builds (Devel category) (Don't worry if it is ver 3.81, we will correct this problem later).
- patchutils -- a small collection of programs that operate on patch files (Devel category)
- perl -- a scripting language used to control parts of the build (Interpreters category)
- sed -- a search and replace language (Base category)
- unzip -- zip file extraction (Archive category)
- zip -- zip file creation (Archive category)
- Install Make 3.80
- Download and extract Make 3.80 (make-3.80-1.tar.bz2) to any folder of your choosing. A file named make-3.80-1.tar is created.
- Proceed to extract the make-3.80-1.tar file.
- Copy the make.exe file located within the usr/bin folder and overwrite the make.exe located in C:\cygwin\bin
- Download and Extract moztools to a folder of your chosing.
Observations
Conclusion
Appendix
Batch File
SET CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot SET CVS_RSH=ssh
rem --- Set HOME so that cvs and ssh work correctly rem --- cvs uses HOME to locate your .cvspass file, and ssh to locate your .ssh file rem --- if you are using ssh, your HOME should match the home directory specified in /etc/passwd. See http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html. set HOME=C:\home
rem --- Set VCVARS to wherever the MSVC vcvars.bat file is found set VCVARS=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin\vcvars32.bat
rem --- Set MSSDK to wherever the MS SDK is installed rem --- Only required for MSVC7 or the Free MSVC editions that don't come with an SDK set MSSDK=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2
rem --- Set MOZ_TOOLS to wherever you have the moztools packaged installed set MOZ_TOOLS=C:\moztools\moztools-static\moztools
rem --- Set CYGWINBASE to wherever cygwin is installed rem --- Do not use CYGWIN or else cygserver, cygrunsrv, and Cygwin services will not function properly rem --- Variable CYGWIN is also used to modify Cygwin's behaviour a little bit. set CYGWINBASE=C:\cygwin rem --- Make sure Cygwin does not print out a DOS style path warning set CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
rem --- Prepend Cygwin path rem --- This is necessary so that cygwin find is ahead of windows find.exe in the PATH, but cgywin link is after MSVC link.exe. set PATH=%CYGWINBASE%\bin;%PATH%
rem --- Set MSVC environment vars call "%VCVARS%" rem --- Prepend SDK paths rem --- Only required for MSVC7 or the Free MSVC editions that don't come with an SDK set PATH=%MSSDK%\bin;%PATH% set INCLUDE=%MSSDK%\include;%INCLUDE% set LIB=%MSSDK%\lib;%LIB%
rem --- moztools comes last set PATH=%PATH%;%MOZ_TOOLS%\bin
rem --- Now the PATH variable contains: rem MS-SDK; MSVC; Cygwin; Windows; glib/libIDL; Moztools
rem --- Typically the last thing the script does is launch a cygwin shell rem --- watch for your ~/.profile and /etc/profile which may overwrite your carefully setup PATH! bash --login -i
.mozconfig File
# Building Firefox Trunk with Debugging . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
# Put all obj files in one place, not in src tree mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/firefox-objdir ac_add_options --disable-static ac_add_options --enable-shared
# Debug Build Setup Options ac_add_options --disable-optimize ac_add_options --enable-debug
# I'm using Canvas for my work ac_add_options --enable-canvas
ac_add_options --disable-installer