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 This is a tutorial to get distcc to compile Mozilla Firefox on Windows using cygwin.

# Cygwin. You will need gcc to build distcc. We built build using gcc-3.4.4

<pre> svn co svn://cdot.senecac.on.ca/distcc/trunk cd trunk && ./configure && make && make install</pre>

Checkout the mozilla Mozilla source. If you are using the lastest latest version of trunk, than you are fine. If you are building 2.0.0.3 or below, you need to apply a silly [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374563 patch].

 Currently, distcc does not transmit debug .pdb files(i.e., it can only send back one file). So you cannot currently do a debug build. Here is a sample MOZCONFIG file. All you need to do is modify the object directory (MOZ_OBJDIR).

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=/cygdrive/c/home/cesar/mozobj ac_add_options --enable-application=browser ac_add_options --enable-optimize ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --enable-debugger-info-modules=no mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="CC='distcc cl' CXX='distcc cl' -j4"

<pre> export The only required environment variable is '''DISTCC_CL_HOSTS="localhost 10''', which contains a space delimited list of all slave machines.0 You must set this variable on the master machine (the machine that contains the source code).0.2 10.0.0.4"</pre>

<pre>Start the distcc daemon. The only thing you need to change is who is allowed to use the daemon. You can use a space-delimited list of IP addresses, or specify the CIDR mask of an entire subnet.  distccd --allow '10.0.0.0/24' --daemon</pre>