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By following the directions on David’s site for building Firefox as well as the documentation provided by Mozilla I was able to compile Firefox with little complication. In order for me to build Firefox on my machine I first needed to download the iso’s for Visual Studio 2005 from [http://acs.senecac.on.ca/pages/index.php ACS]. In addition to Visual Studio I also needed to install Cygwin, ensuring that the patchutils (version 3.80), perl, cvs, zip, and unzip packages are installed along with it.
With everything in place I entered the command to compile. After approximately 50 minutes (on a 1.7 GHz Celeron w/1gig ram) the build completed successfully.
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. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
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=== Software Installed ===
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*[http://acs.senecac.on.ca/pages/index.php Visual Studio 2005]
*[http://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin]
=== Problems Encountered ===
*Unable to download the source tree from Mozilla’s cvs servers.
*Unsuccessful build using David’s mozconfig (Sister said it was done so she closed the Window). There were no executables in the bin directory after the process was completed so I assumed it had failed.
=== Solutions to Problems ===
*Found a [http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.6/source/ link to the source code] on the Mozilla website and downloaded it via the releases.mozilla.org site.
*Checked the [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites Mozilla prerequisite site] and used the mozconfig provided by them (I just wanted to get a build complete and did not want to wait another 40 minutes for a build that I was unsure as to whether or not it would complete successfully)
=== Resources Used ===
*[http://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin]
*[http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~david.humphrey/writing/firefox-win32-build.html David Humphrey's Firefox Build Site]
*[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites Mozilla's Windows Build Pre-Requisites]
*[http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.6/source/ Firefox Source Code]
=== Screenshots ===
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