Changes

User:Jamesboston

44 bytes added, 23:49, 25 February 2009

→‎Building on Windows Vista

= Building Firefox =

== Building on Windows Vista or XP ==

Install Visual Studio:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700736.aspx

Get Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit Update for Windows Vista(even if you are using XP):

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4377f86d-c913-4b5c-b87e-ef72e5b4e065&DisplayLang=en

Download and install Mozilla Build, a package of software ~~prereqs~~prerequisites:

(If you get a message saying this application did not install properly then you should see a windows dialog giving you the option to re-install

with the 'correct settings'. After that all should be well.)

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-1.3.exe

Open a shell window by (on Vista right ~~clicking~~ click and using admin privileges):

(The example here is for Visual Studio 2005. The name of the bat file you use should match the directory that Visual Studio is installed in.)

c:\mozilla-build\start-msvc8.bat

1

edit