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Apparently the big change is to use Visual Studio 2010 for the Windows builds. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/01/end-of-firefox-win2k.html ht
by jbrackett 14y ago
Apparently the big change is to use Visual Studio 2010 for the Windows builds.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/01/end-of-firefox-win2k.html http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/01/end-of-f...
- yuhong 14y agoWhich means Server 2003 RTM is also dropped, BTW.
- JoshTriplett 14y agoIn particular, the current version of Firefox kept struggling to link within a 4GB address space. Hence the comments about "having had to back out and ultimately delay some important new features like SPDY": nothing about SPDY itself, but it happened to push the link above 4GB and cause builds to fail, so it got temporarily dropped.
- mcot2 14y agoThanks for the link. It appears the actual build system will still be based on make but just requiring the toolchain inside vs2010 (currently you can use vs2005-2010). Am I correct here?