Firefox Nightly Builds. Build and Install - MDC Doc Center. Building Once you have checked out the source, be you may want to configure an application as described on the Configuring Build Options page. Generally, the defaults are selected to produce something that is almost identical to the Firefox binaries as shipped. Windows users are strongly advised to use PyMake, since Windows parallel builds are not reliable when using GNU make. In addition, PyMake recurses in a single process reducing the number of shell invocations, which are particularly expensive on Windows. On all other platforms, you should use GNU make to build Mozilla - no other "make" program is acceptable. For Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux, make sure that you are in the top level of the source directory ("mozilla"), when you invoke the make command: $ make -f client.mk build Take a look at dependencies listed below. Note for Mac OS X: The path to the source directory that is created on untarring the source tarball should not have spaces in it!
For most non-GNU unixes: Running Your New Build. #554413 - FTBFS with binutils-gold. Configuring Build Options - MDC Doc Center. In order to build Firefox, a .mozconfig is not required. The default options are the most well-supported, so it is preferable to add as few options as possible. Please read the following directions carefully before building, and follow them in order. If you skip any steps, you may find that you can't build the software, or that the build result isn't usable. Note that build options, including options not usable from the command-line, may appear in "confvars.sh" files in the source tree.
Using a .mozconfig configuration file The choice of which Mozilla application to build and other configuration options should be set in a .mozconfig file. (It is possible to manually call configure with command-line options, but this is not recommended.) Note: Placing .mozconfig as mentioned above is appropriate for Firefox or XULRunner. Echo "# My first mozilla config" > .mozconfig .mozconfig contains two types of options: Options prefixed with mk_add_options are passed to client.mk. Building with an objdir. Chris’ random ramblings » Nightly build times getting slower over time. Yesterday some folks in #developers mentioned they felt their builds were getting slower over time. I wondered if the same was true for our build machines. Mar May Jul Sep Nov Jan Show: Averages: linux: 925.45 win32: 7264.84 osx64: 6623.38 Here’s a chart of build times for the past year. Same machines. The big jump for OSX builds at the end of September is when we turned on the universal x86/x86_64 builds.
There’s a pretty clear upward trend; some of this is to be expected given new features being added, but at the same time more complexity is creeping into the Makefiles. I’m sure there are places in our build process that can be sped up. Are you a build system rock star? Libjpeg-turbo | Main / libjpeg-turbo. Yasm - MDC Doc Center. Yasm is a cross-platform assembler. It is used by the Mozilla codebase to generate routines for decoding the WebM video format and JPEG images.
Mozilla currently requires Yasm 1.1.0 or newer. Obtaining Yasm Windows Yasm is provided in MozillaBuild 1.5.1. Mac You can build Yasm from source by downloading the package here. Yasm is also available through HomeBrew and MacPorts. Brew install yasm # or sudo port install yasm If you install using MacPorts, make sure you have version 1.1.0 or newer by running yasm --version. Sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade yasm to update to the newest version. GNU/Linux Yasm is available through most GNU/Linux distributions' package managers. On Fedora/Redhat systems, run sudo yum install yasm On Ubuntu/Debian systems, run sudo apt-get install yasm If a new enough version isn't available through your package manager, you can either build Yasm from source or disable the modules in Mozilla which rely on Yasm. Building without Yasm Document Tags and Contributors. Simple Firefox build - MDC Doc Center. This page covers the basic steps needed to build a bleeding-edge, development version of Firefox.
For additional, more detailed information, see the build documentation. Build prerequisites Hardware Requirements: Recommended: 4GB of RAM (having only 2GB RAM and 2GB swap may give memory errors during compile) High speed internet Setup: Depending on your Operating System you will need to carry out a different process to prepare your machine. Windows build prerequisites [en-US] Linux and MacOS build preparation [en-US] Get the source Get the latest source code from Mozilla's Mercurial code repository.
Hg clone If you are using a slow or unreliable internet connection, "hg clone" might fail because it gets interrupted. Building To start the build, cd into the mozilla-central subdirectory (created automatically by the hg clone command), and run: . mach is our command-line tool to streamline common developer tasks. The first time you run ". Running . Windows: obj-... Latest Source Passing Tests - MDC Doc Center. This is a supplement to the general instructions for obtaining Mozilla source code. You can look at tinderboxpushlog to see how green the tree is, though often there are known random failures in play so it can be tricky to identify exactly how good the build is.
But in general if it isn't burning it should be mostly usable. On the left hand, you see pushlogs, which means one or more changeset(s) pushed at once. On the right, you see the results of the tinderbox machines associated with that pushlog. Each letter shows a machine status type. Here's a short glossary (tooltips available on hovering the letters): B - Build M - Mochitest R - Reftest J - JSReftest T - Talos (performance tests) S - Static analysis tests For each pushlog, you can check whether all of the letters associated with it on all platforms are green or not. You should note that once you find a healthy pushlog changeset ID, you need to pull its topmost changeset. hg pull hg up 531f60d6cf88.
Configuring Build Options - MDC Doc Center. Getting Mozilla Source Code Using Mercurial - MDC Doc Center. Mercurial is a source-code management tool which allows users to keep track of changes to the source code locally and share their changes with others. It is used for the development of Firefox. Client settings Installing and configuring Mercurial See Installing Mercurial. Checking out a source tree There are multiple hg repositories hosted at mozilla.org, see for the full list. mozilla-central (main development tree) Most developers write patches against the mozilla-central tree. Clone mozilla-central to get a local copy of the repository and then cd into it: # This may take a while... hg clone src cd src Latest successful build The latest committed changes in your checkout may not build successfully. Mozilla-inbound (used for landing your patches) Most developers also maintain a clone of mozilla-inbound, which they use for landing their patches.
Hg clone inbound-src cd inbound-src.