User:Cgomes7/Firefox Build

Lab 1 - Firefox Build

Resources

• Build Documentation

Steps

- Check Firefox build prerequisites for the OS you will be using. I was using Windows 7. Windows Prerequisites

- Download the latest MozillaBuild package. This package contains other software that will be needed to successfully build Firefox.

- Install MozillaBuild. Default location is C:\mozilla-build.

- Run the one of the following batch files. In my case I am using visual studio 2010, so I lauched C:\mozilla-build\start-msvc10.bat.

     start-msvc8.bat  (VS 2005)

     start-msvc9.bat  (VS 2008)

     start-msvc10.bat (VS 2010)

- The batch file will open a command line window. Navigate to the C: directory using the command "cd /c".

- Download the source code for the release version you would like to build. In this case, I downloaded the most recent version. The command "hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/" will copy the most recent version and place it in c/mozilla-central. Navigate into the the directory, "cd mozilla-central".

- Next we must create a .mozconfig file. This file will contain build options that will be used by the make file.

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echo '. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig' > mozconfig echo 'mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/ff-opt' >> mozconfig echo 'ac_add_options --disable-tests' "