Peter

This bug had kept me from compiling Mozilla last night, but finally I got the first build of Minefield on my home computer! Doing a fresh build takes about 1.5 hours, which is not bad I guess! My machine is over 4 years old now; glad it didn’t take 8 hours to compile as I’ve heard on older PCs. My computer is on:

AMD Athlon XP ~1.8 GHz
1 GB RAM
Windows XP Pro

I put up the compile errors I got and threw it into IRC chat. Gijs taught me how to make more sense of the errors by taking a took at the filenames mentioned above the errors. There was a problem with firefox.ico in a previous checkout. If we go to http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/ we can look up the filename, click on the link “firefox.ico”, and then see the CVS log for bug reports! (This was mention this in class before I think.. but I didn’t quite catch on at the moment.) Also we can go back and check out the blame log.

The problem had been fixed so Gijs then explained to me to navigate to mozilla/browser/app/ and run the command: cvs up (Gijs says: this is short for “cvs update”, like “cvs co” is short for “cvs checkout”). CVS updated the files in the directory, in this case the firefox.ico. I went back to the root and executed make again. In just a few minutes the compiler had found the change and finished with no errors!

Thanks again to all those that helped me out (namely: shaver, cesar, andrew, Gijs, dave).. now I can relay what I’ve learned for others who had trouble building on their home computer too. I updated my previous post which explains everything I know to compile successfully on Windows XP.

$ echo lyrics

This was a triumph.
I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.