The distcc with MSVC project started last summer and as of today (and the fixing of bug 374563) we are glad to announce that we are able to distribute (non-debug) windows builds of Mozilla. This has been the only thing that has kept us from releasing the beta 01. Since it turns out that the bug is really in Mozilla (well… really in MSVC, but it’s simpler to change Moz’s code than MSVCs) there is no real difference between

This project started in early August ‘06 when Vlad said he wanted distcc to work MSVC. I had heard of distcc being used for gentoo but didn’t think of applying it to Windows and Mozilla. Cesar and I started with some pretty optimistic ideas about how long and hard we’ll be working!

But, with the relase of beta 01, this leg of the journey is coming to a close. We’ve been able to compile moz with distcc and msvc (information is going up on the wiki as I type this).

As always, you can get the source at svn://cdot.senecac.on.ca/distcc/branches/beta01. However this time we’re also offering windows binaries!

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