810585 - Bootstrap support for Windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 774115

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[tanspark]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.94 Safari/537.4

Steps to reproduce:

On Windows command-line :

curl https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/default/python/mozboot/bin/bootstrap.py > bootstrap.py && python bootstrap.py


Actual results:

It shows the following error :

File "bootstrap.py" , line 138, in <module> 
   sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
File "bootstrap.py", line 129, in main
   dashboot.bootstrap
File "...../bootstrap.py", line 73, in bootstrap
  sys.path.append(include)
NotImplementedError: Bootstrap support is not yet available for your OS.




Expected results:

Bootstrap should have worked successfully !

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

mozboot doesn't support Windows. This is documented at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Simple_Firefox_build. If you found install documentation that implied it works on Windows, please let us know so we can update the docs.