Build Errors

After over a week of just trying to get Visual Studio 2005 installed (due to a faulty CD), I've finally been able to get down to one of the last steps in making my build. This time I've been stopped by the build error "C compiler cannot create executables.", which hits me a few seconds after running the command "make -f client.mk build MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser".

I found the error listed in the Mozilla Build FAQ, and it says to run vcvars32.bat to get the PATH variable set up, because I need to have all the necessary directories listed in the PATH var for this build to work. Unfortunately it doesn't say what all the necessary directories are. :(
Or why my build still doesn't work after running the vcvars32.bat file.

Does anybody happen to know a solution for my problem, or maybe someone who might?

update: Thanks to some classmates, I found out Visual Studio 2008 doesn't have the kind of C compiler that mozilla looks for. But quick download of Textpad (my old favourite text editor), fixed that and statisfied mozilla to successfully complete the build.

Now all I have to do is all those labs. >.<

--(running out of time) Andrew R.

Revolution OS

Watching this documentary helped explain a lot of things to me about Linux and Gnu since I've never really touched anything but Windows. I finally learned what the relation between Gnu and Linux is, and even heard the proper pronunciation of "Linux" from the mouth of the creator himself.

One thing I don't think I'll be likely to forget anytime soon, is the unique ending to this documentary..... A group of hackers singer and playing a song about Open Source.
I can't say they were actually bad, but you sure won't see that song on my play list...hopefully ever.

- The Cathedral and The Bazaar

Although reading this article took a while longer than watching the movie, I found myself constantly agreeing, disagreeing, and reanalyzing Eric's points over several times. For the most part, I agree with the "Bazaar"'s approach and method of constantly sending out code and getting feedback on it, to be an effective way to get things to work the way people want them too.

On the other hand, from a scientific viewpoint I find it hard to believe that Eric Raymond's "Fetchmail Project" qualifies as a proper and thorough testing of Linus Torvald's approach for programming Linux with the hacker community. Granted that it would be nearly impossible to duplicate the creation of an Open source OS, since the need for one and the community has already been mostly taken up by Linux, I don't think that just working on one mail forwarding program with an open source community (even if it did become a niche filler) is what one can call "thorough testing and experimentation" for proving the effectiveness of programming with an Open Source community.