please help me compile Firefox

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watcher
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please help me compile Firefox

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ok, so I following instructions for compiling mozilla on Windows:

cd mozilla\config
nmake /f makefile.win
cd ..
nmake /f client.mak

from http://www.mozilla.org/classic/build/classic-win.html

first of all, in my unzipped directory there is no makefile.win, only makefile.in, so I update the word in command.

Initially, my computer could not find the nmake command, so I downloaded and extracted NMAKE15.exe from Microsoft's FTP. Is that right? Was that then right nmake to go for? Notably, I already have Visual Studio 6.0. Should it be adapted somehow to this issue?

Once I ran nmake, I got:

$ nmake /f makefile.in

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

autoconf.mk(152) : fatal error U1034: syntax error : separator missing
Stop.

around line 152 the autoconf.mk lines are as follows:
ifdef MOZ_LIBART_CFLAGS
ifndef MOZ_INTERNAL_LIBART_LGPL
MOZ_LIBART_CFLAGS := ($MOZ_LIBART_CFLAGS)/libart_lgpl
endif
endif

What do I do now?
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050410 Firefox/1.0+ (jayfromtaiwan)
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Post by TierMann »

Yeah. Makefile.win is pretty much obsolete. The only one that still exists just directs you to the link above.
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