The built executable worked first time too, which was impressive for a project of that size, given that it was the very latest bleeding edge trunk source code.
For comparison, I tried to build Mozilla three or four years ago, and gave up. The Chrome build environment setup instructions, while long and tedious (especially on Windows), are excellent.
Core i7, 12GB of RAM, 10k RPM HDDs.
The built executable worked first time too, which was impressive for a project of that size, given that it was the very latest bleeding edge trunk source code.
For comparison, I tried to build Mozilla three or four years ago, and gave up. The Chrome build environment setup instructions, while long and tedious (especially on Windows), are excellent.