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Re: Building Mozilla Tools under CYGWIN
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Divya Sundaram" <divya at avnika dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:16:24 -0000
- Subject: Re: Building Mozilla Tools under CYGWIN
- References: <000201c2f07f$00823000$0a00a8c0@home.avnika.com>
Divya Sundaram wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to build the LDAP C SDK from Mozilla under cygwin
> and am looking for some advice.
>
> The web page here:
> http://www.mozilla.org/directory/csdk.html
>
> lays out the steps to build the Mozilla C SDK from source.
>
> And, this page offers hints for building Mozilla for Windows:
> http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html#ss2.2b
>
> The issue is as follows:
> "The Windows build uses a UNIX emulator for Windows, cygwin,
> to control the build process, and command line tools from
> Microsoft's Visual C++ to build its source files. "
>
> I don't have Visual C++ ... and I don't have that to install. I would
> like to build this SDK using only CYGWIN tools.
>
> FWIW: I need this to build the PerLDAP Modules for Perl.
>
> Any built these tools without using MSVC++ components? Other
> useful advice?
There is an ongoing effort to make Win32 Mozilla compile with MinGW GCC.
Searching in Mozilla's Bugzilla should find it.
Max.
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