210227 - Building Mozilla 1.4b on Win32 using GCC fails due to access to MSVC++ compiler which is not available

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 209664

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Robert Bamler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

I trie to build Mozilla using the GNU Compiler. After setting the environment
variables and starting make as described in
http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html the build progress works for some
minutes, but then tries to access the MSVC++ compiler although I'm using GCC
instead of MSVC++. The corresponding line on my Windows-Command is:

sh
/cygdrive/c/downloads/mozilla/sourcecode/extracted/mozilla/nsprpub/build/cygwin-wrapper
cl -Fonow.obj -c     -W3 -nologo -GF -Gy -MDd -Od -Z7   -UNDEBUG -DDEBUG_Robert
-UWINNT  -DMOZILLA_CLIENT=1 -DDEBUG=1 -DXP_PC=1 -DWIN32=1 -D_DEBUG=1-DWIN95=1
-D_PR_GLOBAL_THREADS_ONLY=1 -D_X86_=1  -DFORCE_PR_LOG   now.c

This fails, because I don't have Visual C++ on my machine. The error-message is:

exec: cl: not found

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Build Mozilla on Windows XP by starting the following *.bat-file:

set MOZ_TOOLS=C:\downloads\moz_tools\target
set PATH=%PATH%;%MOZ_TOOLS%\bin;C:\Programme\cygwin\bin
set MOZCONFIG=C:\downloads\mozilla\sourcecode\MOZCONFIG
cd C:\downloads\mozilla\sourcecode\extracted\mozilla
make -f client.mk build

(The above paths obviously refer to the locations where I have
installed/downloaded the corresponding files on my machine.)
Actual Results:  
The build progress runs for some time and then tries to start "cl" (Which is the
MSVC++ Compiler as I guess). This throws an error, because the MSVC++ Compiler
is not available.

Expected Results:  
There should be a configuration item where I can set up that I want to use GCC
instead of MSVC++. But I couldn't find such a configuration. I can't imagine how
the scripts of the build progress should know that I'm using GCC without such a
configuration.

Comment 1

[Stephen Walker]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 209664 ***

Comment 2

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

verified