On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 6:03:34 PM UTC+11, harshit jain wrote: > I am a newbie and hope to start contributing to mozilla. So, according to > instructions on this page > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites > I downloaded mozilla build and source code but when I tried to build the > source code using mach build it is showing error > > $ ./mach build > 0:02.36 c:\mozilla-build\mozmake\mozmake.EXE -f client.mk -s configure > 0:08.99 cd c:/mozilla-source/mozilla-central/obj-i686-pc-mingw32 > 0:09.04 c:/mozilla-source/mozilla-central/configure > 0:09.82 Reexecuting in the virtualenv > 0:11.08 checking for a shell... C:/mozilla-build/msys/bin/sh.exe > 0:12.02 checking for host system type... i686-pc-mingw32 > 0:12.02 checking for target system type... i686-pc-mingw32 > 0:12.02 checking whether cross compiling... no > 0:12.06 checking for the target C compiler... > 0:12.06 DEBUG: _cc: Trying cl > 0:12.06 ERROR: GetShortPathName returned a long path name. Are 8dot3 > filenames > disabled? > 0:12.12 *** Fix above errors and then restart with\ > 0:12.12 "c:/mozilla-build/mozmake/mozmake.EXE -f client.mk > build > " > 0:12.13 client.mk:375: recipe for target 'configure' failed > 0:12.13 mozmake.EXE: *** [configure] Error 1 > 2 > > Please help me to build the code for my machine. > I am on windows 7, Intel code i3(3rd gen), 4gb RAM, 64 bit operating system. > My mozconfig file is default, I have not made any change to it.
Hi, did you ever get this working? Could you share how you got it to work? _______________________________________________ dev-builds mailing list dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds
