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  1. .. _build_supported_configurations:
  2. ========================
  3. Supported Configurations
  4. ========================
  5. This page attempts to document supported build configurations.
  6. Windows
  7. =======
  8. We support building on Windows XP and newer operating systems using
  9. Visual Studio 2010 and newer.
  10. The following are not fully supported by Mozilla (but may work):
  11. * Building without the latest *MozillaBuild* Windows development
  12. environment
  13. * Building with Mingw or any other non-Visual Studio toolchain.
  14. OS X
  15. ====
  16. We support building on OS X 10.6 and newer with the OS X 10.6 SDK.
  17. The tree should build with the following OS X releases and SDK versions:
  18. * 10.6 Snow Leopard
  19. * 10.7 Lion
  20. * 10.8 Mountain Lion
  21. * 10.9 Mavericks
  22. The tree requires building with Clang 3.3 and newer. This corresponds to
  23. version of 4.2 of Apple's Clang that ships with Xcode. This corresponds
  24. to Xcode 4.6 and newer. Xcode 4.6 only runs on OS X 10.7.4 and newer.
  25. So, OS X 10.6 users will need to install a non-Apple toolchain. Running
  26. ``mach bootstrap`` should install an appropriate toolchain from Homebrew
  27. or MacPorts automatically.
  28. The tree should build with GCC 4.4 and newer on OS X. However, this
  29. build configuration isn't as widely used (and differs from what Mozilla
  30. uses to produce OS X builds), so it's recommended to stick with Clang.
  31. Linux
  32. =====
  33. Linux 2.6 and later kernels are supported.
  34. Most distributions are supported as long as the proper package
  35. dependencies are in place. Running ``mach bootstrap`` should install
  36. packages for popular Linux distributions. ``configure`` will typically
  37. detect missing dependencies and inform you how to disable features to
  38. work around unsatisfied dependencies.
  39. Clang 3.3 or GCC 4.4 is required to build the tree.