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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 16:23:13 -0000
- Subject: Re: Building Mozilla Tools under CYGWIN
- References: <000501c2f08b$53bc87a0$0a00a8c0@home.avnika.com>
Divya Sundaram wrote:
> Max,
>
> Thanks for the quick response. But I didn't get any relevant hits on
> this from bugzilla http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ when searching
> for either "MinGW" or "cygwin".
>
> Any ideas?
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134113
Max.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb at ukf dot net]
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 9:16 AM
> To: Divya Sundaram; cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: Re: Building Mozilla Tools under CYGWIN
>
>
> 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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