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This is my first experience in building such a big application. It took me a lot of time to do the research, I went to Google, went to ChatZilla, and went to blog, tried to get help. The following are my steps to build FireFox.
<b><font style="font-size:120%"> Step 4: </font></b>
Create a build script called C```buildenv.bat``` in folder ```”C:\proj\buildenv.bat ”``` to setup the appropriate environment variables and paths.
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Create a text file named .mozconfig containing following content in “c:\proj\mozilla” from command line.
{| style="background:black; color:white" width="500"”600”
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| C:\proj\mozilla> copy con .mozconfig
Login to the mozilla CVS repository, using the password anonymous.
{| style="background:black; color:white" width=”600”
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| C:\> cd c:\proj
|- style="background:black; color:white"width=”600”
| C:\proj> buildenv.bat
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Checkout the build script.
{| style="background:black; color:white"width=”600”
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| C:\proj> cvs co mozilla/browser/config mozilla/client.mk
Get the full source from CVS:
{| style="background:black; color:white"width=”600”
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| C:\proj> cd mozilla
Build the Firefox from source:
{| style="background:black; color:white"width=”600”
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| C:\proj\ mozilla> make -f client.mk build