Problem with building foxhound

[TheDarkTron]

Hi there! I am a student from the TU Bs and would like to use foxhound in my masters thesis. I checked out the repo but was not able to build the project. My system:

Edition Windows 10 Education Version 22H2 Installed on ‎31.‎03.‎2021 OS build 19045.2251 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4180.0

What I did:

• Followed the steps in Mozillas Doku

  • Installed Visual Studio
  • Installed mozbuild
  • bootstrap a copy of FF
  • by running ./mach boostrap and ./mach build I was able to build FF nightly

• Check out the foxhoud repo

• install ccache via https://chocolatey.org/

• download git-cinnabar and added it to my path

• install rust via rustup

• copied taintfox_mozconfig_win to .mozconfig

• removed ac_add_options --enable-cdp from .mozconfig because I got the error:

``` Dark Tron@RexTower1Win10 /d/Tron/repo/studium/semester14/project-foxhound $ ./mach build 0:43.41 Failed to parse ccache stats output: 'Local storage/Cache size (GB)' '0.00 / 5.00 ( 0.00%)' 0:44.55 Clobber not needed. Config object not found by mach. 0:44.76 D:/Tron/repo/studium/semester14/project-foxhound/obj-tf-release-64\_virtualenvs\build\Scripts\python.exe D:/Tron/repo/studium/semester14/project-foxhound\configure.py 0:46.09 Using Python 3.9.10 from D:\Tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\obj-tf-release-64\_virtualenvs\build\Scripts\python.exe 0:46.44 Adding configure options from D:\Tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\.mozconfig 0:46.44 --target=x86_64-pc-mingw32 0:46.44 --host=x86_64-pc-mingw32 0:46.44 --disable-updater 0:46.44 --disable-tests 0:46.44 --enable-cdp 0:46.44 MOZ_REQUIRE_SIGNING= 0:46.44 WIN32_REDIST_DIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\VC\Redist\MSVC\14.20.27508\x64\Microsoft.VC141.CRT 0:46.45 checking for vcs source checkout... git 0:48.51 checking for a shell... C:/mozilla-build/msys2/usr/bin/sh.exe 0:48.59 checking for host system type... x86_64-pc-mingw32 0:48.68 checking for target system type... x86_64-pc-mingw32 0:51.41 checking whether cross compiling... no 0:51.87 Traceback (most recent call last): 0:51.87 File "D:\Tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\configure.py", line 349, in 0:51.87 sys.exit(main(sys.argv)) 0:51.87 File "D:\Tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\configure.py", line 131, in main 0:51.87 sandbox.run(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "moz.configure")) 0:51.87 File "D:\Tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\configure\__init__.py", line 556, in run 0:51.88 raise InvalidOptionError(msg) 0:51.88 mozbuild.configure.options.InvalidOptionError: Unknown option: --enable-cdp Error running mach: ['build'] The error occurred in code that was called by the mach command. This is either a bug in the called code itself or in the way that mach is calling it. You can invoke |./mach busted| to check if this issue is already on file. If it isn't, please use |./mach busted file build| to report it. If |./mach busted| is misbehaving, you can also inspect the dependencies of bug 1543241. If filing a bug, please include the full output of mach, including this error message. The details of the failure are as follows: Exception: Process executed with non-0 exit code 1: ['D:/Tron/repo/studium/semester14/project-foxhound/obj-tf-release-64\\_virtualenvs\\build\\Scripts\\python.exe', 'D:/Tron/repo/studium/semester14/project-foxhound\\configure.py'] File "D:\Tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\build_commands.py", line 220, in build return driver.build( File "d:\tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\controller\building.py", line 1296, in build config_rc = self.configure( File "d:\tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\controller\building.py", line 1677, in configure status = self._run_command_in_objdir( File "d:\tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\base.py", line 862, in _run_command_in_objdir return self.run_process(cwd=self.topobjdir, **args) File "D:\Tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\python\mach\mach\mixin\process.py", line 180, in run_process raise Exception( Sentry event ID: 190dc828cc5d458198f5314bdc967cfc Sentry is attempting to send 0 pending error messages Waiting up to 2 seconds Press Ctrl-Break to quit ```

• After that I run ./mach build again and I get the following error:

``` Dark Tron@RexTower1Win10 /d/Tron/repo/studium/semester14/project-foxhound $ ./mach build 1:20.65 Failed to parse ccache stats output: 'Local storage/Cache size (GB)' '0.00 / 5.00 ( 0.00%)' 1:20.82 Clobber not needed. Config object not found by mach. 1:20.84 D:/Tron/repo/studium/semester14/project-foxhound/obj-tf-release-64\_virtualenvs\build\Scripts\python.exe D:/Tron/repo/studium/semester14/project-foxhound\configure.py 1:21.13 Using Python 3.9.10 from D:\Tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\obj-tf-release-64\_virtualenvs\build\Scripts\python.exe 1:21.47 Adding configure options from D:\Tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\.mozconfig 1:21.47 --target=x86_64-pc-mingw32 1:21.48 --host=x86_64-pc-mingw32 1:21.48 --disable-updater 1:21.48 --disable-tests 1:21.48 WIN32_REDIST_DIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\VC\Redist\MSVC\14.20.27508\x64\Microsoft.VC141.CRT 1:21.48 MOZ_REQUIRE_SIGNING= 1:21.48 checking for vcs source checkout... git 1:21.57 checking for a shell... C:/mozilla-build/msys2/usr/bin/sh.exe 1:21.66 checking for host system type... x86_64-pc-mingw32 1:21.75 checking for target system type... x86_64-pc-mingw32 1:23.13 checking whether cross compiling... no 1:23.36 checking for Python 3... D:/Tron/repo/studium/semester14/project-foxhound/obj-tf-release-64/_virtualenvs/build/Scripts/python.exe (3.9.10) 1:23.38 checking for git... C:/PROGRA~1/Git/cmd/git.exe 1:23.41 checking for Git version... 2.38.1.windows.1 1:23.47 checking for sparse checkout... no 1:23.48 checking for wget... C:/mozilla-build/msys2/usr/bin/wget.exe 1:23.55 checking for ccache... not found 1:23.57 checking for the target C compiler... C:/PROGRA~1/LLVM/bin/clang-cl.exe 1:24.00 checking whether the target C compiler can be used... yes 1:24.00 checking the target C compiler version... 15.0.5 1:24.31 checking the target C compiler works... yes 1:24.32 checking for the target C++ compiler... C:/PROGRA~1/LLVM/bin/clang-cl.exe 1:24.42 checking whether the target C++ compiler can be used... yes 1:24.42 checking the target C++ compiler version... 15.0.5 1:24.57 checking the target C++ compiler works... yes 1:24.57 checking for the host C compiler... C:/PROGRA~1/LLVM/bin/clang-cl.exe 1:24.67 checking whether the host C compiler can be used... yes 1:24.67 checking the host C compiler version... 15.0.5 1:24.82 checking the host C compiler works... yes 1:24.83 checking for the host C++ compiler... C:/PROGRA~1/LLVM/bin/clang-cl.exe 1:24.93 checking whether the host C++ compiler can be used... yes 1:24.93 checking the host C++ compiler version... 15.0.5 1:25.08 checking the host C++ compiler works... yes 1:25.34 checking for 64-bit OS... yes 1:25.41 checking for Windows SDK... 0x0a00 in C:/PROGRA~2/WI3CF2~1/10/ 1:25.41 checking for Universal CRT SDK... 10.0.22000.0 in C:/PROGRA~2/WI3CF2~1/10/ 1:25.43 checking for linker... C:/PROGRA~1/LLVM/bin/lld-link.exe 1:25.45 checking for host_linker... C:/PROGRA~1/LLVM/bin/lld-link.exe 1:25.46 checking for the assembler... C:/PROGRA~1/MICROS~3/2022/COMMUN~1/VC/Tools/MSVC/1434~1.319/bin/HostX64/x64/ml64.exe 1:25.48 checking for rc... C:/PROGRA~1/LLVM/bin/llvm-rc.exe 1:25.49 checking for ar... C:/PROGRA~1/LLVM/bin/llvm-lib.exe 1:25.87 checking for stdint.h... yes 1:26.11 checking for inttypes.h... yes 1:26.36 checking for malloc.h... yes 1:26.42 checking for alloca.h... no 1:26.48 checking for sys/byteorder.h... no 1:26.53 checking for getopt.h... no 1:26.59 checking for unistd.h... no 1:26.64 checking for nl_types.h... no 1:26.87 checking for cpuid.h... yes 1:26.93 checking for fts.h... no 1:26.98 checking for sys/statvfs.h... no 1:27.04 checking for sys/statfs.h... no 1:27.09 checking for sys/vfs.h... no 1:27.14 checking for sys/mount.h... no 1:27.20 checking for sys/quota.h... no 1:27.26 checking for sys/queue.h... no 1:27.39 checking for sys/types.h... yes 1:27.44 checking for netinet/in.h... no 1:27.50 checking for byteswap.h... no 1:27.56 checking for memfd_create in sys/mman.h... no 1:27.62 checking for perf_event_open system call... no 1:27.66 checking for llvm_profdata... C:/PROGRA~1/LLVM/bin/LLVM-P~2.EXE 1:27.70 checking for rustc... C:/Users/DARKTR~1/CARGO~1/bin/rustc.exe 1:27.72 checking for cargo... C:/Users/DARKTR~1/CARGO~1/bin/cargo.exe 1:28.75 Actually using 'C:\Users\Dark Tron\.rustup\toolchains\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\bin\rustc.exe' 1:28.95 Actually using 'C:\Users\Dark Tron\.rustup\toolchains\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\bin\cargo.exe' 1:28.98 checking rustc version... 1.65.0 1:29.01 checking cargo version... 1.65.0 1:29.63 checking for rust host triplet... x86_64-pc-windows-msvc 1:29.72 checking for rust target triplet... x86_64-pc-windows-msvc 1:29.74 checking for rustdoc... C:/Users/DARKTR~1/CARGO~1/bin/rustdoc.exe 1:29.85 checking for cbindgen... C:/Users/DARKTR~1/CARGO~1/bin/cbindgen.exe 1:29.87 checking for rustfmt... C:/Users/DARKTR~1/CARGO~1/bin/rustfmt.exe 1:30.24 checking for clang for bindgen... C:/PROGRA~1/LLVM/bin/clang.exe 1:30.29 checking for libclang for bindgen... C:/PROGRA~1/LLVM/bin/libclang.dll 1:30.46 checking that libclang is new enough... yes 1:30.46 checking bindgen cflags... -x c++ -fno-sized-deallocation -fno-aligned-new -DTRACING=1 -DIMPL_LIBXUL -DMOZILLA_INTERNAL_API -DRUST_BINDGEN -DOS_WIN=1 -DWIN32=1 -D_CRT_USE_BUILTIN_OFFSETOF -DHAVE_VISIBILITY_HIDDEN_ATTRIBUTE=1 -std=gnu++17 1:30.58 checking for tm_zone and tm_gmtoff in struct tm... no 1:31.22 checking for _getc_nolock... yes 1:31.42 checking for localeconv... yes 1:33.00 checking for nodejs... D:\Tron\repo\studium\semester14\fh_build\node\node.EXE (12.22.1) 1:33.06 checking for tar... C:/mozilla-build/msys2/usr/bin/tar.exe 1:33.06 checking for unzip... C:/mozilla-build/bin/unzip.exe 1:33.09 checking for gn... not found 1:33.09 checking for the Mozilla API key... no 1:33.09 checking for the Google Location Service API key... no 1:33.09 checking for the Google Safebrowsing API key... no 1:33.09 checking for the Bing API key... no 1:33.09 checking for the Adjust SDK key... no 1:33.09 checking for the Leanplum SDK key... no 1:33.09 checking for the Pocket API key... no 1:33.10 checking for midl... C:/PROGRA~2/WI3CF2~1/10/bin/10.0.22000.0/x64/midl.exe 1:33.13 checking for llvm-dlltool... not found 1:33.13 DEBUG: llvm_dlltool: Looking for llvm-dlltool 1:33.13 ERROR: Cannot find llvm-dlltool Error running mach: ['build'] The error occurred in code that was called by the mach command. This is either a bug in the called code itself or in the way that mach is calling it. You can invoke |./mach busted| to check if this issue is already on file. If it isn't, please use |./mach busted file build| to report it. If |./mach busted| is misbehaving, you can also inspect the dependencies of bug 1543241. If filing a bug, please include the full output of mach, including this error message. The details of the failure are as follows: Exception: Process executed with non-0 exit code 1: ['D:/Tron/repo/studium/semester14/project-foxhound/obj-tf-release-64\\_virtualenvs\\build\\Scripts\\python.exe', 'D:/Tron/repo/studium/semester14/project-foxhound\\configure.py'] File "D:\Tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\build_commands.py", line 220, in build return driver.build( File "d:\tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\controller\building.py", line 1296, in build config_rc = self.configure( File "d:\tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\controller\building.py", line 1677, in configure status = self._run_command_in_objdir( File "d:\tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\base.py", line 862, in _run_command_in_objdir return self.run_process(cwd=self.topobjdir, **args) File "D:\Tron\repo\studium\semester14\project-foxhound\python\mach\mach\mixin\process.py", line 180, in run_process raise Exception( Sentry event ID: d43921c7f9b74ec6a833f47dd60be087 Sentry is attempting to send 0 pending error messages Waiting up to 2 seconds Press Ctrl-Break to quit ```

I have llvm installed via choco. But it seams like the package does not include llvm_dlltool. I was unable to find instructions on how to install llvm_dlltool on the web.

Any help on the build setup is greatly appreciated!

[tmbrbr]

Hi @TheDarkTron, great to hear you are interested in Foxhound!

I have managed to build using Windows in the past by following the instructions here: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/windows_build.html

In that case I didn't need chocolatey / rust, just built from the Mozilla build tools shell:

"When working with Firefox tooling, you’ll need to do so from within the MozillaBuild shell. You can start it by running C:\mozilla-build\start-shell.bat (you may want to make a shortcut to this file so it’s easier to start)."

Are you also doing this?

[TheDarkTron]

Hi and thanks for the reply! Yes I am using the mozilla-build\start-shell.bat but still getting the error. On 24. Nov 2022, at 17:33, Thomas Barber @.***> wrote: Hi @TheDarkTron, great to hear you are interested in Foxhound! I have managed to build using Windows in the past by following the instructions here: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/windows_build.html In that case I didn't need chocolatey / rust, just built from the Mozilla build tools shell: "When working with Firefox tooling, you’ll need to do so from within the MozillaBuild shell. You can start it by running C:\mozilla-build\start-shell.bat (you may want to make a shortcut to this file so it’s easier to start)." Are you also doing this?

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[TheDarkTron]

I setup a VM and build the project under ubuntu. That worked