Out of the box build failure

[Pelican]

I will eventually be passing this project onto our developer, but in the meantime I have a problem building out-of-the-box.

After I discovered that docs recommending using VS 2012 was for earlier builds and that the latest build requires VS 2013 I got underway and after 60 minutes of build time arrived at this error...



How to fix this error?

[Fedor2]

Screen with error endings is irrelevant , you put it with the begining of the error.
In the output directory, that log file was been written with all screen data, find it then find inside it the error encounter.

[Pelican]

Where can I find the log file?

[Fedor2]

It inside the top three directories of the output directory, something like mozbuild, do not recall actually, i shall reach my job machine only on monday to see exact. Suppose you know where to look the output directory.

[Pelican]

Nope, no idea. There is nothing like an output folder.

[Fedor2]

It is named object directory
may be helping
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org ... -directory
search there for *log*.*json*

[Pelican]

At C:\palemoon-source\obj-x86_64-pc-mingw32\.mozbuild\warnings.json ???

But there are 3,695 lines of warnings.

Aha! Just noticed the "latest" build instructions recommending MozBuild 2.1 (had been using 1.10) and will see if that makes a difference.

[Pelican]

Success

But why 437 compiler warnings?

[Moonchild]

But why 437 compiler warnings?

Simply put: because you're compiling 15 million lines of cross-platform/cross-compiler code. Many of the warnings are not in any way critical, are deprecation warnings, code style warnings or other trivial things like macro redefinitions etc.