Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of BuildingWinNSS

Timestamp:

Mar 1, 2010, 3:07:22 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

bviktor

Comment:

some cosmetics

BuildingWinNSS

@@ -11 +11 @@
  1. Get NSS
 
-  Download [ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_12_5_RTM/src/nss-3.12.5-with-nspr-4.8.2.tar.gz NSS with NSPR 3.12.5]. Extract it so somewhere (you'll get an `nss-3.12.5-with-nspr-4.8.2` directory).
+  Download [ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_12_5_RTM/src/nss-3.12.5-with-nspr-4.8.2.tar.gz NSS with NSPR 3.12.5]. Extract it to `c:\devel\nss-devel`.
 
  2. Get !MozillaBuild
@@ -19 +19 @@
  3. Get MinGW
 
-  This assumes that you have MinGW working as described in the [wiki:BuildingWinPidgin#Themanualway Pidgin Building Instructions].
-
- 4. Get w32api sources
-
-  Download [https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW%20API%20for%20MS-Windows/w32api-3.14/w32api-3.14-mingw32-src.tar.gz/download MinGW API for MS-Windows 3.14]. Extract it to somewhere (you'll get a `w32api-3.14-mingw32` directory).
-
-== Build shell32 library ==
-
- 1. Enter `w32api-3.14-mingw32`.
-
- 2. Build libraries:
-
-{{{
-sh configure
-make
-}}}
-
- 3. Copy `w32api-3.14-mingw32/lib/shell32.o` to `win32-dev/mingw/lib`.
+  This assumes that you have MinGW working as described in the [wiki:BuildingWinPidgin#Themanualway Pidgin Building Instructions] (in short, you need [https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/ MinGW] installed with at least gcc).
 
 == Choose build flavour ==
@@ -112 +95 @@
 == Patch NSS ==
 
-There's an error which prevents NSS from building with GCC. Apply the following patch to `nss-3.12.5-with-nspr-4.8.2\mozilla\security\nss\lib\freebl\config.mk`:
+There's an error which prevents NSS from building with GCC. Apply the following patch to `c:\devel\nss-devel\nss-3.12.5-with-nspr-4.8.2\mozilla\security\nss\lib\freebl\config.mk`:
 
 {{{
@@ -164 +147 @@
 }}}
 
-Launch a MSYS shell using `c:\mozilla-build\msys\msys.bat` and run the above script.
+Launch an MSYS shell using `c:\mozilla-build\msys\msys.bat` and run the above script.
 
 The build will likely not complete successfully (it will bail out building `.../cmd/bltest`).  If it gets that far, it has built the various libraries successfully.
 
-The resulting binaries will be placed in `nss-3.12.5-with-nspr-4.8.2\mozilla\dist`. The contents of `private` and `public` are the same across all flavours so they can be distributed separately.
+The resulting binaries will be placed in `c:\devel\nss-devel\nss-3.12.5-with-nspr-4.8.2\mozilla\dist`. The contents of `private` and `public` are the same across all flavours so they can be distributed separately.