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'''Name:''' Lukas Blakk <br/>
'''IRC:''' lsblakk (or occasionally as backinblakk)<br/>
Inside the S@Y universe I am trying to take more steps to be involved. This is what brought me to here.
=Building Firefox=
Just to jump in, I tried to build firefox.
=Tweaks=
When I installed cygwin, I left the line endings as UNIX type (recommended) - and when I tried to check out I got the following error:
===The error===
C:\proj\mozilla>make -f client.mk checkout
cvs checkout: warning: failed to open /home/Lukas/.cvspass for reading: No such
file or directory
/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/.mozconfig: line 2: /cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/browser/co
: No such file or directory
client.mk:517: /cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/.mozconfig.mk: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/cygdrive/c/proj/mozilla/.mozconfig.mk'. Stop
.
===The solution===
in C:\projs\mozilla
dos2unix .mozconfig
This cleared everything up, and then I was able to begin downloading the source code.
=Links=
This is amazing documentation:
*[[Liz_Chak_Assignment_1]]
*[http://cs.senecac.on.ca/%7Edavid.humphrey/writing/firefox-win32-build.html David Humphrey's Guide to Building Firefox on Win32 using Visual Studio .NET 2005]
And also to [[User:auenf2|auenf2]] on irc://irc.mozilla.org/#firefox for figuring out that it was the line endings preventing me from a seamless build.