Open Bug 1577274 Opened 6 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Not able to build Firefox locally. Error with C++ install.

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Version:
68 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: virenv, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

I just enlisted using the steps mentioned in: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites

After the steps were complete, I started build using the command:
mach build

Actual results:

Build fails with error: 0:02.63 ERROR: Cannot find a Visual C++ install for e.g. ATL headers.

I am not sure if it is looking for cl.exe or something else. I tried adding the path in env varibables to cl.exe but nothing worked.

Expected results:

Build should have happened.

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Component: Untriaged → General
Product: Firefox → Firefox Build System
Severity: normal → S3
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