Closed Bug 1401627 Opened 7 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Add configure option to use standalone Visual Studio toolchain

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(firefox57 wontfix)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1523198
Tracking Status
firefox57 --- wontfix

People

(Reporter: gps, Assigned: gps)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

We currently have code in mozconfigs for performing a lot of environment variable adjustment to use standalone visual studio toolchains (the archives we produce for automation). Let's move this logic into configure so anyone can use a standalone toolchain. This will allow developers to either download the official toolchain (from private tooltool) or produce and use a self-contained one themselves. The latter is a workaround for bug 1323381.
Depends on: 1397263
Blocks: 1402915
Product: Core → Firefox Build System

We're not going to do this with MSVC support going away.

Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX

Actually, bug 1523198 essentially did this (and while we won't support building with MSVC, we still need to find and use MSVC for clang-cl builds).

Resolution: WONTFIX → DUPLICATE
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