I went ahead and fixed the instructions. Most of it should now be up-to-date.
On 20 October 2014 18:44, Gijs Kruitbosch <gijskruitbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Can you or someone else in the know update > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Developer_Guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites > and friends, or (if you don't like wiki software, don't want to create an > account, or have other reasons not to want to do this...) provide > instructions on how to use vs2013 and mozillabuild on this thread so someone > else can update the docs? > > Thank you! > > Gijs > > On 14/10/2014 07:10, David Major wrote: >> >> VS2013 is now on inbound and all Windows builds are green. >> >> (Win64 builds were actually switched late last week, as they are >> unaffected by trains.) >> >> Please file bugs blocking 914596 if you encounter any VS2013-specific >> issues. >> >> If you're not sure what version you're running, you can: >> * Check the package: >> VS2013 builds contain msvcr120.dll and msvcp120.dll. >> VS2010 builds contain msvcr100.dll and msvcp100.dll. >> * Check the build log: >> VS2013 logs contain the string 'Compiler Version 18.00'. >> VS2010 logs contain the string 'Compiler Version 16.00'. >> >> David >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> >>> From: "David Major" <dma...@mozilla.com> >>> To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org, firefox-...@mozilla.org >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 7:21:07 PM >>> Subject: Re: Switching to Visual Studio 2013 >>> >>> Update: the switch will happen early in version 36. >>> >>> The build machines needed a reinstall of VS2013 due to a deployment >>> issue. As >>> merge day is coming up, it's not a good time for major changes. We'll >>> wait >>> for 36 to have more bake time. >>> >>> On the plus side, we picked up Update 3 in the process. >>> >>> David >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> >>>> From: "David Major" <dma...@mozilla.com> >>>> To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org, firefox-...@mozilla.org >>>> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 6:27:58 PM >>>> Subject: Switching to Visual Studio 2013 >>>> >>>> We plan to switch the Windows build machines to Visual Studio 2013 on >>>> the >>>> Firefox 35 train. >>>> >>>> Some benefits from this change: >>>> * No more linker OOM crashes. VS2013 includes a 64-bit toolchain for >>>> 32-bit >>>> builds, so the linker will no longer be limited to 4GB address space. >>>> * The linker capacity opens the door for merging our binaries into >>>> libxul >>>> (like we do on the other platforms) >>>> * More than 2x improvement in PGO build times >>>> * Better language support >>>> >>>> The tracking bug is 914596. The remaining blockers are here: >>>> >>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=914596&hide_resolved=1 >>>> >>>> David >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> firefox-dev mailing list >>> firefox-...@mozilla.org >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev >>> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
