Changes between Version 21 and Version 22 of BuildingWinNSS

Timestamp:

Mar 1, 2010, 11:27:26 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

bviktor

Comment:

vc build actually works but it needs vc redist

BuildingWinNSS

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 NSS stands for [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ Network Security Services]. NSS is required to use SSL in Pidgin. NSS depends on NSPR and a [https://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS_Shared_DB shared database] (SQLite since [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/nss-3.12/nss-3.12-release-notes.html NSS 3.12]), but you don't have to worry about these, there's and NSS with NSPR package which is compact thus it contains all sources required to build NSS.
 
-'''Note''': at the moment you can't build NSS completely using GCC. It fails at the final stage when linking additional tools. However, you can build all the important libraries successfully. It will hopefully be improved in the future.
+'''Note''': at the moment you can't build NSS completely using GCC. It fails at the final stage when linking additional tools. However, you can build all the important libraries successfully. It will hopefully be improved in the future. You can build NSS completely with [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F3FBB04E-92C2-4701-B4BA-92E26E408569&displaylang=en#filelist Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition SP1]. This isn't covered in this tutorial but it's basically the same. However, if you build NSS with Visual C++, you must instruct your users to install the [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package] or include it in the installer of your application (if permitted).
 
 == Prerequisites ==