![]() ![]() These are the tools required by the Mozilla build system. With the following hardware, I was above their recommended specs: Mozilla requires a “development-class system” to compile. Going off a checklist, I worked my way down: Feeling ambitious, I decided to try building the most-recent code for the upcoming Firefox 4. If you’re like me you want to get your hands dirty and you’ll ignore the “Impatient” route they suggest.Īn extensive system has extensive prerequisites for various versions. The build system is complex and issues may come up. Mozilla Developer Central has an extensive series of wiki entries dedicated solely to multi-platform building. Not just a little either, but everything you can to build Firefox on Windows. With a recent nudge from a professor, I went ahead and successfully retrieved the source and compiled Firefox. I’d always thought it would be scary building a large application like Mozilla Firefox completely from source, but a few weeks ago I did some initial looking into it.
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