Build System

Important Concepts

• Build Glossary
• Build System Overview
• Supported Build Hosts and Targets
• Mozconfig Files
• moz.build Files
• mozbuild Sandbox Symbols
• Files Metadata
• Profile Guided Optimization
• Why the Build System might be slow
• Environment Variables Impacting the Build System
• Build Targets
• Python and the Build System
• Test Manifests
• mozinfo
• Text Preprocessor
• JAR Manifests
• Defining Binaries for the Build System
• Defining XPCOM Components
• Creating Toolchain Archives
• Localized Builds
• Unified Builds
• Cross-compilation
• Including Rust Code in Firefox
• Sparse Checkouts
• Support for projects building with GN
• Build Telemetry
• Distributed sccache (sccache-dist)
• Adding Certificates for Testing

integrated development environment (IDE)

• Cpp Eclipse Projects
• Visual Studio Projects

mozbuild

mozbuild is a Python package containing a lot of the code for the Mozilla build system.

• mozbuild

Snap Package

Snap is a packaging format

• Firefox Snap Packaging