These instructions will assume you are going to create a directory on your C drive called palemoon-source.

In this case you need to go into 'individual components' of the Visual Studio installer, and select 'MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ 圆4/x86 build tools (v14.33-17.3)' when installing, as well as additional build configuration to point to the correct tools. Important note for Visual Studio 17.4.*: If you are planning to build 32-bit binaries with Visual Studio 17.4.*, there is currently a known compiler/runtime issue that y0ou need to work around by using older version of the compiler and runtimes. At least 6 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended, especially if building with many parallel tasks).See the individual components in the package after extraction for details. This is an all-in-one build package with software licensed under various Open Source and permissive licenses. MozillaBuild 3.4 (4.0+ is not recommended as it relies on recent Mozilla changes for clang building and won't work for MSVC out of the box!).

You may also want to consider installing the IDE in a different location with a shorter path, but please do leave the SDK paths to default when you do (only change the top option).

'Windows 11 SDK 0.0' in the right pane under 'Installation details'.

Select the following components during install: We're assuming you're using the Community Edition for this document.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (Community Edition (free) or Pro/Paid version - Express won't work).

At least Windows 10 64-bit (32-bit build environments are not supported).

These instructions are for building Pale Moon 31.0.0 and newer and assumes you want to build the latest release.

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