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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.
== Steps to build Mozilla firefox Firefox ==
Here are the steps that I took to build Firefox under Windows with Visual Studio 2005 on my machine.
Step 1: Install VSVisual Studio .NET Professional 2005 by default.
Step 2: 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 the version of make is 3.80.
