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| Supported Configurations |
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| This page attempts to document supported build configurations. |
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| Windows |
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| We support building on Windows XP and newer operating systems using |
| Visual Studio 2010 and newer. |
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| The following are not fully supported by Mozilla (but may work): |
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| * Building without the latest *MozillaBuild* Windows development |
| environment |
| * Building with Mingw or any other non-Visual Studio toolchain. |
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| OS X |
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| We support building on OS X 10.6 and newer with the OS X 10.6 SDK. |
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| The tree should build with the following OS X releases and SDK versions: |
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| * 10.6 Snow Leopard |
| * 10.7 Lion |
| * 10.8 Mountain Lion |
| * 10.9 Mavericks |
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| The tree requires building with Clang 3.3 and newer. This corresponds to |
| version of 4.2 of Apple's Clang that ships with Xcode. This corresponds |
| to Xcode 4.6 and newer. Xcode 4.6 only runs on OS X 10.7.4 and newer. |
| So, OS X 10.6 users will need to install a non-Apple toolchain. Running |
| ``mach bootstrap`` should install an appropriate toolchain from Homebrew |
| or MacPorts automatically. |
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| The tree should build with GCC 4.4 and newer on OS X. However, this |
| build configuration isn't as widely used (and differs from what Mozilla |
| uses to produce OS X builds), so it's recommended to stick with Clang. |
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| Linux |
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| Linux 2.6 and later kernels are supported. |
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| Most distributions are supported as long as the proper package |
| dependencies are in place. Running ``mach bootstrap`` should install |
| packages for popular Linux distributions. ``configure`` will typically |
| detect missing dependencies and inform you how to disable features to |
| work around unsatisfied dependencies. |
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| Clang 3.3 or GCC 4.4 is required to build the tree. |
