Building Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows Vista with Visual2008

I have successfully builded Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows Vista. My system configuration are Windows Vista Home, 2 GB RAM and Visual Studio 2008.

Steps To Follow for Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2008:

1. Download MozillaBuildSetup.exe to install mercurial and extract all required programs.
2. Go to the mozilla-build folder in "C:", if you have selected default directory to install mercury.
3. Run start start-msvc9.bat .
4. On the command prompt execute "hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/ src", it will take a longer time depending on the internet speed.
5. Then change directory to "src".
6. Ececute "python client.py checkout". This also might take few minutes.
7. Now it's time to make a .mozconfig .

Here is my .mozconfig file. Anyone can copy it and make the build.

ac_add_options --enable-application=mail

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/tbird-debug

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=mail

ac_add_options --disable-optimize

ac_add_options --enable-debug

mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j5

8. Execute command "make -f client.mk build".

9. I think it sohuld be all.

If you have further questions email me at chinmay_patel@ymail.com .