769089 - Add support for building Gaia on Windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 590921

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Description

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

According the directions to build and run Gaia on the desktop [1] I'm running make at the gaia source code dir.  This fails because git is missing in mozilla win build package. 

Adding just all missing from git/bin of the git-for-windows [2] installation is not enough since then make fails on using older version of sed (not knowing the -i pref).

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko/Using_the_B2G_desktop_client#Build
[2] http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/detail?name=msysGit-netinstall-1.7.11-preview20120620.exe&can=2&q=net+installer

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

We have existing bugs on these things in MozillaBuild, but I feel like this bug would be better served as a B2G bug asking to fix the instructions to work in MozillaBuild.

Comment 2

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

At this point, with MozillaBuild 2.0, I think the main hurdle remaining for this is Git integration, which unfortunately depends on switching to msys2. That's the next big project I intend to take on, though, so it'd be good to know what if any other issues are blocking it.

Comment 3

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

I'm duping this to the git bug since, AFAICT, that's all we're missing at this point. I know for sure that we've updated sed to a version that supports -i at this point.