602449 - Debug builds won't run

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[JK]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6
Build Identifier: -

The debug builds won't run, because according to the (non-English) error message they have invalid parallel definitions (rough translation). Windbg gives an error code: 0n14001. I have tried several different debug builds.

Are the files corrupted or is there a special trick needed to run them?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download a debug build from the URL & unpack it
2. Attempt to run firefox.exe
Actual Results:  
An error message is displayed.

Expected Results:  
The program should run.

Comment 1

[JK]

Attachment: error

Comment 2

[JK]

Attachment: List of installed VC redists

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

I don't think debug builds are supposed to work on machines that do not have Microsoft Visual Studio installed (as you need the debug version of the VC runtime DLLs for that). I think this bug is invalid...?

Comment 4

[JK]

Which VS is required? I have 2008 and 2010 express editions.

Comment 5

[JK]

Also, if this is about missing debug dlls, distributing the dlls with the debug builds would fix this.

Comment 6

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

The VS license does not allow to distribute the debug runtime DLLs.

Comment 7

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

You need VS 2005 btw. Marking as invalid.