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I get x error when trying to build Mozilla – whats wrong?

April 26, 2017build Error Mozilla wrong

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I get x error when trying to build Mozilla – whats wrong?

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First, make sure that you have the latest release of the Mozilla source. Secondly, ensure that you have fully read the build instructions for your platform. These instructions are included in the source tree, and are also available on the Mozilla website: Detailed build instructions: • Unix/X • Win32 • Mac If your version of make chokes on the makefiles (on Unix), you might not be using GNU make. Grab the latest version of GNU make from The GNU FTP site. Regarding shells, I would like to recommend the following: If you are using Unix, use bash-family shells for the build because of the better control over redirection (in case you want to log errors and messages) If you are using Win32, using the default shell cmd.exe (as opposed to 4DOS or 4NT) will probably yield better results. Regarding compilation options, it would be good NOT to compile with optimization, because it’s much slower to build, and on Windows platforms, there’s a bug in some versions of VC++ that makes Mozilla crash in