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From:	"Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To:	"Divya Sundaram" <divya AT avnika DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Building Mozilla Tools under CYGWIN
Date:	Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:23:13 -0000
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Divya Sundaram wrote:
> 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?

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134113

Max.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb AT ukf DOT net]
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 9:16 AM
> To: Divya Sundaram; cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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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