Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of BuildingWinNSS

Timestamp:

Mar 1, 2010, 3:58:40 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

bviktor

Comment:

use failsafe command prompt instead of msys.bat since it may hang (like for me)

BuildingWinNSS

@@ -15 +15 @@
  2. Get !MozillaBuild
 
-  Download [http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-1.4.exe MozillaBuild 1.4] and install it. By default it installs to `c:\mozilla-build`.
+  Download [http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-1.4.exe MozillaBuild 1.4] and install it. Install it to `c:\devel\mozilla-build`.
 
  3. Get MinGW
@@ -120 +120 @@
 == Build NSS ==
 
-The easiest way to do this with consistent results to to make a build script (the following is what the binary included with Pidgin is built with):
+The easiest way to do this with consistent results is to make a build script (the following is what the binary included with Pidgin is built with):
 {{{
 #!sh
@@ -139 +139 @@
 PATH=/c/devel/pidgin-devel/win32-dev/mingw/bin:$PATH
 PATH=/c/devel/mozilla-build/moztools/bin:$PATH
+PATH=/c/devel/mozilla-build/msys/bin:$PATH
 export PATH
 
@@ -147 +148 @@
 }}}
 
-Launch an MSYS shell using `c:\mozilla-build\msys\msys.bat` and run the above script.
+Save this script as `build.sh`. Launch a command prompt and run:
+
+{{{
+c:\devel\mozilla-build\msys\bin\sh build.sh
+}}}
 
 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.