Closed Bug 437286 (fx2vistavc9) Opened 17 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Make Firefox 2 buildable with VC9 on Vista.

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

1.8 Branch
x86
Windows Vista
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: jst, Unassigned)

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I'm not sure we'll ever bother to land this, but I have a patch that makes Firefox 2.0 buildable on Vista with VC9. There's 3 things with this patch that isn't figured out, but for my needs they don't matter. The first one is that you need to disable accessibility, the second and third is that the patch hacks modules/zlib/src/zutil.h to get around a vsnprintf issue and embedding/tests/Makefile.in to disable building mfcembed. Other than that the patch seems close to sane at least. Most of the changes are taken from the trunk etc, but merging some of the changes wasn't trivial so it'd need a good review etc before we could consider it. Either way, if anyone else cares about this, this is at least a good place to start...
Attached patch WIP.Splinter Review
Version: 1.0 Branch → 2.0 Branch
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: build.config → build-config
Version: 2.0 Branch → 1.8 Branch
We no longer support building with VC9.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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