Building Mozilla on Microsoft Windows 32-bit platforms
Daniel Nunes, leaf@netscape.com
v 1.0, June 1998
How to build Mozilla on a Microsoft Windows 32-bit System.
1. Introduction
2. Building Mozilla
3. Common Problems
1. Introduction
What this document is: A guide to building the Mozilla application.
This includes:
- A listing of the development tools you will need to build Mozilla.
- A list of environment variables you will need to set before building.
If you're looking for documentation on developing features or fixing bugs, the Mozilla Technical Documents or Library are probably what you're looking for.
2. Building Mozilla
- Each of the following subsections describes, or gives references to
descriptions of, the steps necessary to build Mozilla.
- MozillaSourceClassic_19981026_BASE - the origional base tag, no continued development
- MozillaSourceClassic_19981026_BRANCH - the classic branch, any changes would be made here
- Microsoft Visual C++ version 4.2 or later
- GNU Tools for Microsoft Windows, located:
Specifically, you'll need:
cp.exe
rm.exe
uname.exe
gmake.exe
shmsdos.exe
uname.exe
- Pentium 133 MHz or better
- 64 MB RAM, 128 MB recommended
- 250 MB NTFS or 500 MB FAT disk space
- NT 4.0 is preferred; NT 3.51 will also work.
- nmake has a 'fatal error', listing one of the GNU commands and a
hexadecimal return code.
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This will happen as a result of not having the GNU tools and Windows Build
tools in your path. Add the directories with the appropriate binaries to your
path.
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It fails with the message "'.\WIN32' unexpected":
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You didn't properly
set the environment variables -- you must not include a space at the end
of the set statements (be careful if you are cut'n'pasting).
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It fails to build, with directory-related errors:
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The full path
to the source must not include any spaces. Additionally, the source must
be extracted with an intact directory structure by a utility that understands
long filenames. If in doubt, grab Info-Zip at
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip
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It fails immediately with the message "Cannot find specified directory":
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You didn't properly set the environment variable MOZ_TOOLS;
this needs to be set to the path up to, but not including, the final \bin
directory in the path to the gnu tools. So, the path to the tool executables
is '%MOZ_TOOLS%\bin\
'. -
I'm not running a 32-bit windows system, how do i build?
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Currently, the build process depends on a 32-bit operating system.
Windows NT 4.0 is the recommended windows operating system.
2.1 Get the Code
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Get the code, using
CVS.
CVS will provide the most current code for building classic.
Simply pull Mozilla from either cvs tag (as in: cvs -d TAG MODULE/TO/PULL):
2.2 Requirements
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The following need to be installed:
Hardware/OS
2.3 Setup the Build Environment
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The following environment variables need to be set:
set MOZ_BITS=32
set MOZ_DEBUG=1 (set this only if you want to build a debug build)
set MOZ_MEDIUM=1
set MOZ_NT=351 (if running NT3.51)
set MOZ_OUT=(optional: specifies location of resultant executable)
set MOZ_SRC=(top of your tree, for example: set MOZ_SRC=d:\mozilla_source
if this is the directory where you checked or unzipped the source into)
set MOZ_TOOLS=(the parent directory of the GNU tools 'bin' directory. The build
looks for MOZ_TOOLS\bin\gmake.exe, so make sure that the gmake.exe from
the Windows Build Tools package resides there.)
set NSPR20=1
set _MSC_VER=1100 (if you are running VC++ 5.0) or 1200
(if you are running VC++ 6.0)
2.4 Run the build
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Change to the directory you copied the source into (for example,
cd d:\mozilla_source). If this directory was empty before you
installed the source, there should be two directories here:
README and mozilla.
cd mozilla\config
nmake /f makefile.win
cd ..
nmake /f client.mak