On 8 November 2013 14:09, Herbert Duerr <h...@apache.org> wrote: > On 08.11.2013 13:39, Armin Le Grand wrote: > >> On 08.11.2013 13:18, Herbert Duerr wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> >>> If you are working on Windows then you'll notice that the >>> --with-mozilla-build option is still there as NSS being part of the >>> Mozilla project needs the Mozilla build environment. If you object to >>> install the Mozilla build environment then you couldn't build the >>> moz+nss modules on Windows then and cannot build nss on Windows now. >>> Please use the --disable-nss-module or the --disable-category-B >>> switches if providing the Mozilla build environment for NSS is out of >>> the question. >>> >> >> Is there a way to get around this...? Maybe nss can be 'replaced' >> somehow...? >> > > There are several libraries that could be alternatives, please see [1] for > an overview. Evaluating the viability of them for replacing the individual > aspects of NSS that are used in AOO could be an interesting task for > volunteers. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_implementations > > Regarding the requirement of having the mozilla build environment for > building NSS on Windows: I don't think NSS needs much of that tooling. They > require this MingW based environment like we depend on our Cygwin based > environment. NSS could certainly be rewritten to use cygwin too. But is it > worth the trouble? Downloading MozBuildSetup [2] and running it is not much > of an effort and it has the great benefit that we can then consume the > source releases of NSS almost directly. The alternative of rewriting NSS > for our cygwin environment would be much more intrusive than what is > recommended for a category-B licensed library. >
Especially considering we have ongoing efforts to remove cygwin, and use visual studio directly. rgds jan I. > > [2] http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32 > > > Herbert > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
