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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.
Here are the steps that I took to build Firefox under Windows with Visual Studio 2005.
<b><font style="font-size:120%"> Step 1: </font></b>Install Visual Studio .NET Professional 2005 by default.
<b><font style="font-size:120%"> Step 2: </font></b>Install
[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites#GNU_Tools_for_Microsoft_Windows_.28Cygwin.29 GNU Tools for Microsoft Windows (Cygwin)]
. Cywin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It includes many utilities that are used to build firefox, such as gawk, perl, zip, and make. When selecting packages, you must make sure <b><font style="font-size:120%"> Step 3: </font></b>Download and Extract the version of make is 3[http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/moztools-static.80zip Static moztools libraries] for Visual C++ to directory “C:\proj\moztools”.
<b><font style="font-size:120%"> Step 3: Download and Extract the [http4:</font></ftp.mozillab>Create a build script called '''buildenv.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/moztools-static.zip static moztools libraries] for Visual C++ to directory “cbat''' containing following content in folder '''”C:\proj\moztools””''' to setup the appropriate environment variables and paths.
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<b><font style="font-size:120%"> Step 5: </font></b>Create a text file named .mozconfig containing following content in “C:\proj\mozilla” from command line. {| style="background:black; color:white" width="600"|-| C:\> cd c:\proj|-| C:\proj> md mozilla|-| C:\proj> cd mozilla|-| C:\proj\mozilla> copy con . mozconfig|}
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ac_add_options --enable-debug
# I'm using Canvas for my workac_add_options --enable-canvasDisable build Windows installation file
ac_add_options --disable-installer
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<b><font style="font-size:120%"> Step 6: </font></b>Login to the mozilla CVS repository, using the password anonymous.
{| style="background:black; color:white" width="600"|- | C:\> cd c:\proj|- style="background:black; color:white" width="600"| C:\proj> buildenv.bat|-| C:\proj> cvs login|}
<b><font style="font-size:120%"> Step 7: </font></b>Checkout the build script.
{| style="background:black; color:white" width="600"|-| C:\proj> cvs co mozilla/browser/config mozilla/client.mk|}
<b><font style="font-size:120%"> Step 8: Get </font></b>Download the full source file from CVS: .
{| style="background:black; color:white" width="600"|-| C:\proj> cd mozilla|-| C:\proj\mozilla> make -f client.mk checkout|}
<b><font style="font-size:120%"> Step 9: </font></b>Build the Firefox from source:.
{| style="background:black; color:white" width="600"|-| C:\proj\ mozilla> make -f client.mk build|}
== Resources ==
* [http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~david.humphrey/writing/firefox-win32-build.html Build Mozilla Thunderbird/Building Firefox/Sunbird on Microsoft Windows] * [http://ftpWin32 using Visual Studio .mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/moztools-static.zip GNU Tools for Microsoft Windows (Cygwin)NET 2005]
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites#GNU_Tools_for_Microsoft_Windows_.28Cygwin.29 GNU Tools for Microsoft Windows (Cygwin)]
* [http://gemal.dk/mozilla/build.html Building Build Mozilla Thunderbird/Firefox /Sunbird on Win32 using Visual Studio .NET 2005Microsoft Windows]
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites Windows Build Prerequisites]
== Screenshot ==
This is the screen shot of new FireFox.
