finally that happend............
I built firefox in ubuntu 12.04.It took around 3 week to build.After doing all requirement that needed for building I tried to build.But it showed some errors when I run the command ./mach build(This command will is needed to build the firefox). But then also I tried a lot and finally I built successfully.
simple instructions to build firefox in Linux
Build prerequisites :-
Hardware prerequisites:-
1) Recommended: 4GB of RAM (having only 2GB RAM and 2GB swap may give memory errors during compile)
2)High speed internet
Set up:-
You can run the following command to install all system dependencies :-
wget https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/default/python/mozboot/bin/bootstrap.py && python bootstrap.py
If you have already checked out the source code via Mercurial or Git you can also use mach with the bootstrap command:
./mach bootstrap
To Get the source code
command for getting source code from Mozilla's Mercurial code repository.
hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central
But it didn't work for me properly so I downloaded the mercurial bundle instead of using hg clone.The following link to download mercurial bundle.
Follow the steps after downloading the bundle :-
1) Initialize a new repository (in a directory called 'mozilla-central' here):
mkdir mozilla-central
hg init mozilla-central
2) Un-bundle the bundle file to that repository:
cd mozilla-central
hg unbundle /path/to/your/bundle.hg
3) Add the following lines to the file mozilla-central /.hg/hgrc(we have to create the file)
[paths]
default = https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/
4) Update the repository to get all the changes
hg pull
5)Check out a working copy from your new up to date repository
hg update
- Then go ahead and start building using the command
./mach build
- run the newly created Firefox instance, use the mach command
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