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Assignment 1 (yshen6)

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= Assignment 1 - build firefox =

== Introduction ==

My first step is search “how to build firefox on Windows” on Google. Then I followed the instructions on David Humphrey's website.

== Software Installed ==
Install the compiler - Visual Studio.NET 2005<br/>
Install Cygwin with all packages required for building Mozilla:
ash
coreutils
cvs
diffutils
findutils
gawk
grep
libiconv
make 3.80
patchutils
perl
sed
unzip
zip
Create a directory c:\proj<br/>
Download and Extract Moztools to C:\proj\moztools

== Steps to Complete the build ==

Setup environment variables and paths by creating a setup file: c:\proj\buildsetup.bat
Copy and paste the given code(from David's website) to c:\proj\buildsetup.bat
<pre>
@echo off

rem --- CVS Setup
SET CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot
SET CVS_RSH=ssh

rem --- Setup the paths to the moztools build libraries
set MOZ_TOOLS=C:\proj\moztools
set GLIB_PREFIX=%MOZ_TOOLS%
set LIBIDL_PREFIX=%MOZ_TOOLS%

rem --- Scrub these variables first
SET INCLUDE=
SET LIB=
SET PATH=C:\;C:\windows\system32;C:\windows\system32\wbem

rem --- Prepend cygwin
SET PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH%

rem --- Setup VC8 compiler environment vars
CALL "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86

rem --- Add glib/libidl to build environment
SET PATH=%PATH%;%GLIB_PREFIX%;%GLIB_PREFIX%\bin
SET INCLUDE=%GLIB_PREFIX%\include;%INCLUDE%
SET LIB=%GLIB_PREFIX%\lib;%LIB%

rem --- moztools comes last after glib/libIDL
SET PATH=%PATH%;%MOZ_TOOLS%\bin

</pre>

Run Cygwin and move into c:\proj directory Problem1 – I have no idea how to move my current directory to c:\proj in Cygwin
<pre>
$ cd ../..
$ cd cygdrive/
$ cd c
$ cd proj
</pre>
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