User:Vpmirand/Assignment1

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Introduction

I first started off building Firefox on my Windows XP Professional machine using Visual Studio.Net 2003. Unfortunately I had some problems along the way and solved them by using Google.com and by asking for help in the IRC chat. When I finally built Firefox I tried to run it but wasn’t successful because it crashed on me. So I tried building it on two other hard drives and I got the same error. Since I was short on time I decided to give Linux a try and see if I would be more successful with building Firefox on a Linux operating system.

I was finally able to build Firefox successfully on Ubuntu, which took me about one night to do. This document will cover the build requirements such as hardware and software that I needed in order to build Firefox successfully. I will then discuss the steps that took me to fully complete the build and any problems that I encountered along the way. I will end it off with some useful resources that I found and used throughout the process of the build and then talk about my experience with my first open source build.

Requirements

Hardware

Intel Pentium 3 Processor 450 Mhz
256 MB RAM
40 Gigabyte Hard Drive
Ubuntu 

Software

Before I could install any packages or libraries I had to install build-essential, which is the synaptic package manager (i.e. Library Manager). Once I got this installed I looked at Linux Build Prerequisites to find out which libraries I needed. The following are a list of the libraries that I installed.

• CVS
• GTK (2.0)
• Libxt-dev
• Libidl-dev
• Make

The Build

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Steps took to complete build

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Problems Encountered

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Screenshot

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Conclusion

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