I recommend a 4+ physical core Ivy Bridge or newer i5/i7 CPU, 8+ GB of RAM (16 GB preferred), and an SSD. If you work for Mozilla and don't have that (e.g. you are building on a MacBook Air), please order a new machine right now.
Anyone with less is going to have a bad time. I'm inclined to consider any setup with 4 or less GB of RAM unsupported. These are requirements today. Unless it got scrapped in Q1 goal setting, there are plans to ship a build mode that downloads pre-built binaries. If you don't touch C++, your system requirements will essentially drop to nothing since there will be very little system-intensive parts of the build. This will, of course, require a decent internet connection in order to not be super annoying. But I'm guessing most people have that, so no big deal. On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Mike Hoye <mh...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 2015-01-09 8:59 AM, Neil wrote: > >> >> 2GB builds, although I expect it's on the slow side. 1GB isn't enough >> though, unless you enable shared gkmedias and js (and shared js builds are >> broken anyway because we don't link to js when we should). >> >> 1GB is the bare minimum require to run VS2013 Community at all, and > that's only for Win7x86 nonvirtual. On VMs you need 1.5 min, say the specs, > and x64 are 2GB. > > I've put a 2GB minimum in the docs; I'm curious what the real disk space > minimums are for Linux? Those numbers haven't been updated in a while, > looks like. > > - mhoye > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
