After building, Firefox.exe never appears

[digit...@gmail.com]

I went through the steps for a simple Firefox build (Windows) and was able to build successfully the first time I tried. However, since then whenever I build Firefox, the actual Firefox.exe file never appears in dist/bin. I've done another HG Pull to make sure that I have the most recent code. I've tried using both VS 2008 and VS 2010 (both express).

I get these errors in the command prompt at the end of the process:

251:26.84 c:\mozilla-source\mozilla-central\config\rules.mk:33:4:Variable DIRS i
s defined in c:/mozilla-source/mozilla-central/obj-i686-pc-mingw32/browser/brand
ing/nightly/Makefile. It should only be defined in moz.build files
251:26.84 c:\mozilla-source\mozilla-central\config\makefiles\target_export.mk:18
:0: command 'c:/mozilla-build/python/python.exe c:/mozilla-source/mozilla-centra
l/build/pymake/pymake/../make.py -C browser/branding/nightly export' failed, ret
urn code 2
251:26.84 c:\mozilla-source\mozilla-central\config\rules.mk:659:0: command 'c:/m
ozilla-build/python/python.exe c:/mozilla-source/mozilla-central/build/pymake/py
make/../make.py export_tier_app' failed, return code 2
251:26.84 c:\mozilla-source\mozilla-central\config\rules.mk:625:0: command 'c:/m
ozilla-build/python/python.exe c:/mozilla-source/mozilla-central/build/pymake/py
make/../make.py tier_app' failed, return code 2
251:26.85 c:\mozilla-source\mozilla-central\client.mk:369:0: command 'c:/mozilla
-build/python/python.exe c:/mozilla-source/mozilla-central/build/pymake/pymake/.
./make.py -j1 -C obj-i686-pc-mingw32' failed, return code 2
251:26.85 c:\mozilla-source\mozilla-central\client.mk:163:0: command 'c:/mozilla
-build/python/python.exe c:/mozilla-source/mozilla-central/build/pymake/pymake/.
./make.py -f c:/mozilla-source/mozilla-central/client.mk realbuild' failed, retu
rn code 2
Single process terminated successfully
251:26.95 648 compiler warnings present.
2

Any ideas?

[Gregory Szorc]

On 4/15/2013 4:38 AM, digit...@gmail.com wrote:
> I went through the steps for a simple Firefox build (Windows) and was able to build successfully the first time I tried. However, since then whenever I build Firefox, the actual Firefox.exe file never appears in dist/bin. I've done another HG Pull to make sure that I have the most recent code. I've tried using both VS 2008 and VS 2010 (both express).
>
> I get these errors in the command prompt at the end of the process:
>
> 251:26.84 c:\mozilla-source\mozilla-central\config\rules.mk:33:4:Variable DIRS i
> s defined in c:/mozilla-source/mozilla-central/obj-i686-pc-mingw32/browser/brand
> ing/nightly/Makefile. It should only be defined in moz.build files

You need to clobber your build and start from scratch. Run |mach
clobber| or manually delete your object directory then run |mach build|.

If that doesn't work your tree is not up to date.

[digit...@gmail.com]

> You need to clobber your build and start from scratch. Run |mach
>
> clobber| or manually delete your object directory then run |mach build|.
>
>
>
> If that doesn't work your tree is not up to date.

Thanks, clobber worked.

[digit...@gmail.com]

> You need to clobber your build and start from scratch. Run |mach
>
> clobber| or manually delete your object directory then run |mach build|.
>
>
>
> If that doesn't work your tree is not up to date.

Thanks, clobber worked.