It appears that the formatting of that email was pretty well destroyed when sent out. Here's a direct link to the release notes in Google Doc form: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NDz7ROxTYNB5YnP7VJ5CmJomQDun-7o4HDtSRLkuPaw/edit
-Ryan On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Ryan VanderMeulen < rvandermeu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > I am pleased to announce the final release of MozillaBuild 3.0! Sorry in > advance for the length of this message, but there's a lot of changes in > this release worth calling out. > > https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/libraries/win32/ > MozillaBuildSetup-Latest.exe > <http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-Latest.exe> > > Important changes since version 2.2.0: > > - > > MozillaBuild now requires Windows 7+ 64-bit to install. > - > > Removed the start-shell-msvc*.bat files. See below for more > information on this change. > - > > Updated Python to version 2.7.13 and switched to the 64-bit version. > - > > Added Python 3.6.2. > - > > Added nodejs 8.1.4 & npm 5.3.0. > - > > ESLint is now a first-class citizen on Windows! Things should Just > Work when using the |./mach eslint| command. > - > > Other updates to various included components. > - > > Mercurial updated to version 4.2.2. > - > > NSIS updated to version 3.01 (and older versions removed). > - > > Some MSYS components were updated. > - > > Behind the scenes, MozillaBuild packaging was completely overhauled so > that anyone can now generate an installer package simply by running the > packageit.py script from the source checkout. This should in turn make it > much easier for new contributors to test their work. > > > Full changelog: > > https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-build/pushloghtml? > fromchange=MOZILLABUILD_2_2_0_RELEASE&tochange=MOZILLABUILD_3_0_0_RELEASE > <http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-build/pushloghtml?fromchange=MOZILLABUILD_2_2_0_RELEASE&tochange=MOZILLABUILD_3_0_0_RELEASE> > > It is strongly advised that you not install this over a previous > installation! > > Upgrade instructions: > > 1. > > Pull down and update to a modern revision of any trunk repo > (mozilla-central, inbound, or autoland). > 2. > > Run |./mach mercurial-setup --update-only| to ensure the > version-control-tools repository is current. Extension bustage after > upgrade is likely if you don’t do this. > 3. > > Run |./mach clobber| to remove the object directory of any trees you > have. Build errors are pretty much guaranteed to occur otherwise. > 4. > > Assuming you’ve previously installed Rust via |./mach bootstrap|, > backup msys/etc/profile.d/profile-rustup.sh from your current > MozillaBuild installation. > 5. > > Remove your current installation. If you can't remove the existing > installation, you probably have a terminal open or ssh-agent running. > Terminate it and try again. > 6. > > Install MozillaBuild 3.0. > 7. > > Copy profile-rustup.sh to your new msys/etc/profile.d directory. You > can also just re-run |./mach bootstrap| if you don’t want to deal with > copying files around. > 8. > > If you previously enabled minTTY, you will need to do so again by > setting USE_MINTTY=1 at the top of start-shell.bat. > > > Please file any problems you come across in mozilla.org::MozillaBuild. > > Where did start-shell-msvc*.bat go? > > Since the release of MozillaBuild 2.2.0, much has changed with how we > build Firefox and in how Microsoft distributes their compiler and SDK > toolchains. In order to make things more flexible for both our build > automation as well as people building locally, MSVC and Platform SDK > detection was moved into the build system where it’s now detected when > configure runs. Both MSVC 2015 and 2017 detection is supported, as well as > Windows SDK 8.1+. > > If you have both MSVC 2015 and 2017 installed, 2017 will be chosen by > default. This can be overridden by adding the following line to your > mozconfig > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Configuring_Build_Options> > : > > ac_add_options --with-visual-studio-version=2015 > > Windows builds currently default to 32-bit. This can cause problems with a > mismatched Rust toolchain because it’ll try to use the 64-bit one by > default and then error out. To create a 64-bit build instead, add the > following two lines to your mozconfig: > > ac_add_options --host=x86_64-pc-mingw32 > > ac_add_options --target=x86_64-pc-mingw32 > > Otherwise, you’ll need to manually install the i686 toolchain by running > the |rustup install stable-i686-pc-windows-msvc| command. > > If you run into any problems with MSVC or Windows SDK detection, please > file a bug in Core::Build Config. > > Thanks for reading and enjoy! > > -Ryan > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
