MozillaBuild

Overview

MozillaBuild is a meta-installer that provides everything needed to build Mozilla on Windows, sans Visual C++. Its source lives in https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-build/. Bugs should be filed in mozilla.org :: MozillaBuild. For information about building Mozilla on Win32, see the Mozilla Developer Center page.

Current Version

The current version of MozillaBuild is 2.1.0. It is available on ftp.mozilla.org.

To Upgrade From A Previous Version

Upgrading from an earlier MozillaBuild installation is straightforward but each step is important.

1. Delete your current MozillaBuild environment by moving your MozillaBuild folder into the trash. If you can't remove the existing installation, you probably have a terminal open or ssh-agent running. Terminate that process and try again.
2. Install MozillaBuild 2.1.0.
3. Run ./mach mercurial-setup --update-only to ensure that the version-control-tools repository is current.
4. Clobber any trees you have by running ./mach clobber - build errors may occur otherwise.
5. If you had previously enabled minTTY, you will need to do so again by adding USE_MINTTY=1 to the top of start-shell.bat.

Release Notes

• MozillaBuild 2.1.0
• MozillaBuild 2.0.0
• MozillaBuild 1.11.0
• MozillaBuild 1.10.0
• MozillaBuild 1.9.0
• MozillaBuild 1.8.0
• MozillaBuild 1.7
• MozillaBuild 1.6
• MozillaBuild 1.5.1: added YASM for WebM code in Firefox 4.
• MozillaBuild 1.5: Mercurial 1.5.4, Python 2.6.5, and support for Visual Studio 2010.
• MozillaBuild 1.4: Windows x64 compatibility and other.
• MozillaBuild 1.3
• MozillaBuild:ReleaseNotes:1.2

There are no release notes for 1.1 and below.

Historic Versions

Old versions of MozillaBuild can also be found on ftp.mozilla.org.