Building Mozilla Tools under CYGWIN

Sat Mar 22 16:40:00 GMT 2003

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?
Thanks 
Divya
-----Original Message-----
From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 9:16 AM
To: Divya Sundaram; cygwin@cygwin.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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