Lab 1 - Firefox Build
Resources
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
- Extract the Firefox source files.