Changes between Version 36 and Version 37 of BuildingWinNSS

Timestamp:

Oct 15, 2011, 6:27:54 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

itsnotabigtruck

Comment:

Updated introduction

BuildingWinNSS

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 == Preamble ==
 
-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.
+[http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ Network Security Services] (NSS) is the library Pidgin uses for connecting to SSL-enabled servers. 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 as the downloads from Mozilla contain all sources required to build the libraries.
 
-'''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, however, build NSS completely with the Windows Driver Kit, but you'll need the [http://code.google.com/p/xchat-wdk/source/browse/#hg/ext/nss-wdk NSS-WDK patch] (binaries [http://code.google.com/p/xchat-wdk/wiki/InfoNSS here]).
+'''Note:''' at the moment you can't build NSS completely using GCC/MinGW. It fails at the final stage when linking additional tools. However, you can build all the important libraries successfully. The instructions below are for building NSS using the Windows Driver Kit (WDK), which does build completely.
 
 == Prerequisites ==