Note This document is a guide to the build prerequisites for building the Mozilla 1.9 codebase before the introduction of the MozillaBuild system in March 2007. If you are building Firefox 3 or greater, please see the standard Windows Build Prerequisites. For building Firefox 2, Firefox 1.5, and other Mozilla products based on pre-1.9 branches, see the Windows Build Prerequisites on the 1.7 and 1.
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