Firefox 65 is out – Development Enviroment

[Dave]

Can i kindly request for the update to the new version?
The second is is there a section of your site with instructions how to make build enviroment like yours (the same if is possible) for building the firefox with your source patches? I know that we have a folder with the patches in every build you upload. I just wondering if we can have that oppurtunity, for example to build the firefox with our local cpu in mind —> for example -march=native etc and not a generic one.

[Tete]

I have been trying to build my custom build of Fx 65 since official one was released, but I have not been successful because of unexpected build errors. Specifically, there are cases where clang-cl can not generate .obj files but leaves 0-byte .obj.tmp files instead.

I uninstalled anti-virus softwares etc and checked my drive, but the result was the same…
I would like to postpone uploading my builds until I build it successfully.

[Dave]

thanks tete for your answer 🙂 i would like also to give my thanks about your work 🙂
For the second part of my previous question? (build enviroment —> mozilla have some generic instructions how to make a build enviroment in windows with visual studio etc. i dont know if with that instructions only and with your patches i will build a same build like yours —> until bugs fixed, with the 65 version, im talking now about 64.0.2)

[Tete]

I have not prepared the section you mentioned. Also, I have not tested my patches on non-Windows-x86 platforms.
For Windows hosts, I have attached an apply.bat file for applying my patches all at once. The TT_MOZ_SRC_DIR and TT_PATCH_DIR variables have to be changed depending on your environment. I have not prepared the similar approach for non-Windows hosts.

[Dave]

thanks again tete for your answer 🙂
Well i was talking building firefox in windows not in linux or other operating system.
I'll try to do my bests, to compile firefox with your patches, to produce exact the same build like yours with the only difference builded with –march=native –mtune=native to test it. Im just curious if the performance will squeezed a bit more (your build by the way is the quickest to all windows builds out there)

[Tete]

I have successfully built my custom build of Fx 65.0 by using llvm snapshot build, so I've uploaded it.

[Uli]

Thank you very much!