Checkout and Build NSPR

Checkout

To checkout NetScape Portable Runtime (NSPR) you need CVS 1.10 set the CVSROOT enviornment variable to:

:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot

Issue the command:

cvs checkout [-r TAG] mozilla/nsprpub

You now have NSPR checked out into the current working directory.

Build

There are two different build procedures for NSPR, depending on which NSPR release you want to build. NSPR releases 4.1.x and earlier use the classic build method. Beginning with NSPR release 4.2 an autoconf based make system is used.

Building NSPR varies a little depending on platform. Building NSPR builds only NSPR libraries, the test cases must be built separately. Building debug and optimized targets requires options on the gmake or configure command line. Read on.

Unix

Autoconf (NSPR 4.2 and later)

In the directory you have checked NSPR out to, create a directory to contain the build targets; cd to that directory; run configure and make. For example, say:

mkdir target
cd target
../mozilla/nsprpub/configure
gmake
cd pr/tests
gmake

The above commands build the debug targets. To build the optimized targets, the configure command should say:

... configure --enable-optimize --disable-debug

For platforms supporting it, to build 64bit targets, add the --enable-64bit option to the configure command.

Classic (NSPR 4.1.x and earlier)

Building debug targets, first NSPR itself, then the test suite:

cd mozilla/nsprpub
gmake
cd pr/tests
gmake

To build the optimized targets, change the gmake commands to:

gmake BUILD_OPT=1

Windows

Autoconf (NSPR 4.2 and later)

Using the autoconf build method on Windows requires the Cygwin Toolkit.

Open a Cygwin window. Follow the procedure described for building NSPR on Unix.

Classic (NSPR 4.1.x and earlier)

Building Windows targets is similar. There are two builds for Windows: a generic Win32 build and a WinNT build. The difference is that the WinNT build runs only on Windows NT (and Windows 2000); the generic Win32 build runs on any of Win9x, WinME, WinNT, Win2K.

The following assumes MSVC 6.0 with ServicePack 4. The compiler is must be configured to run from the command line.

To build the generic Win32 debug targets:

cd mozilla\nsprpub
gmake OS_TARGET=WIN95
cd pr\tests
gmake OS_TARGET=WIN95

To build the optimized targets, add BUILD_OPT=1 option to the gmake command.

To build the WinNT debug targets:

cd mozilla\nsprpub
gmake
cd pr\tests
gmake

To build the optimized targets, add BUILD_OPT=1 option to the gmake command.

Mac

Follow the Unix build instructions.

Others

Specialists on mozilla contributed ports are invited to contribute to this section.

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