On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:13 AM, <inter...@almostweekend.com.au> wrote:

> 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?
>

The Firefox build system currently requires 8dot3 filename support on
Windows. More info at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1323381.
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