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This FAQ is meant to provide a place for you to capture knowledge as you begin working on Mozilla developmentwith Open Source. When someone answers a question for you, consider adding it below, and feel free to update previous entries. Create new topic headings as necessary.
==Building Firefox==
# '''What are some ways I can make my build go faster?'''
#: See [[Improving Build Times]]
== Mozilla Build System ==
1. '''How do a see what macros are being expanded in order to understand my compiler error (a.k.a., how do I create a preprocessed version of a C/C++ file)?
$ cd $OBJDIR/some/directory
$ make nsMyFilename.i
2. '''How do I generate Doxygen documentation for Mozilla?'''
$ cd $OBJDIR
$ make documentation
3. '''Hw do I see the final value of a makefile variable?'''
$ cd $OBJDIR/some/directory
$ make echo-variable-EXTRA_DSO_LDOPTS
== IRC ==
# '''Where can I get general info about using IRC?'''
#: See the [[Irc|IRC]] page on this wiki.
# '''Where can I find a comprehensive list of IRC clients?'''
#: Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IRC_clients for a list of IRC clients on various platforms. Two popular choices are [http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla/ Chatzilla] and [http://www.irssi.org/ irssi].
