This was the first time for me building Mozilla. I've downloaded mozilla-19990128.tar.gz and I'm compiling on a NT4.0 box. Here are the problems I ran into: * nglayout.mak in the main MOZILLA directory assumes there is a command called unix_date in the $(MOZ_TOOLS)\bin directory. However, the latest release of Gnu Tools from Cygnus (Cygwin 20.1) there is only a "date" command. * config/rules.mak assumes perl is at $(MOZ_TOOLS)\perl5\perl.exe. However, the build documentation at http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html simply suggest to use ActivePerl, which doesn't install in $(MOZ_TOOLS)\perl5. The make file should probably just use the perl that's in the user's path. I believe that the build document already suggests putting perl and the GNU tools at the start of the path when building. * The following line in the build instructions at http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html should be changed form: OS_TARGET=WINNT to set OS_TARGET=WINNT * The following environment variables were needed to run make on nglayout.mak: set MODULAR_NETLIB=1 set STANDALONE_IMAGE_LIB=1 set NGLAYOUT_PLUGINS=1 They should be added to the list of variables listed in http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html.

I hereby designate Leaf as the Windows expert who will be able to make sense of this for me. ;-)

working on the docs

Actually, the "perl" and "date" gotchas have been fixed in the source base, the docs are all i have left to clean.

just setting a target milestone to get it off the radar of bugs with no milestones

what's left to fix on the docs? I can go fix this if you're busy.

setting to m7, this isn't a milestone blocker; more work will be done on this shortly

is this fixed?

I just double checked, this is all fixed stuff. The doc is sufficient to build.

vrfy, people build on win32, nt4, and even 9x.