Windows Build Instructions

Requirements

The canonical development environment for Windows platforms is NT 4.0, though Win95/98 can also be made to work.  You'll need approximately 175M of disk space. The following tools need to be installed:

• MSVC 5.0
  
  
• GNU Tools for Microsoft Windows, downloaded from Cygnus . (You'll probably want to download and install the full.exe file.)
  
  Specifically, you'll need:
  cp.exe
  rm.exe
  uname.exe
  flex.exe
  bison.exe
  
  
• Netscape has internally modified version of gmake, shmsdos and win32gnu that we use to get around some problems we were having keeping in sync with the Unix version of gmake. This version of gmake can be found in the Windows Build Tools package, which can be ftp'd from the Mozilla Download page. The three files you will need are:
  gmake.exe
  shmsdos.exe
  uname.exe
  
  
• Perl5 (download)

Get the code

Download the code using CVS:

cvs co mozilla/ef
cvs co mozilla/nsprpub

Setup the Build Environment

Set your MOZ_TOOLS environment variable to point to 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, e.g.

set MOZ_TOOLS=C:\moztools

Install perl5 in %MOZ_TOOLS%/perl5/perl.exe

Create a \tmp directory for temporary files in the root of the drive which you are using to build, e.g. D:\tmp.  (You must do this even if you have TEMP or TMP environment variables that point to a different directory, as bison apparently ignores these variables).

Add the mozilla\dist\$(OBJDIR)\bin directory to your PATH

Download Sun's JDK1.2 and install it.  Copy the rt.jar file into your mozilla/ef/Package directory.

Build ElectricalFire

• Build the NSPR library:
  • cd mozilla\nsprpub;gmake
    
    
  • If you're building on Win95, rename the NSPR output directory in mozilla/dist from WIN95_DBG.OBJ to WINNT40_DBG.OBJ
    
    
  • Once NSPR20 is built, you will need to add the NSPR DLL directory to the search path for Executable files in MSVC 5.0.  Open the Options Dialog from the Tools Menu in MSVC 5.0 and select the Directories tab. Add the path to the NSPR DLLs, e.g. D:\fur\mozilla\dist\WINNT4.0_DBG.OBJ\bin
     
• Start MSVC 5.0 and load the following workspace:

  mozilla\ef\Driver\StandAloneJava\winbuild\ElectricalFire.dsw

• Under MSVC's Build menu, select "Build sajava.exe"