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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 9:16 AM > To: Divya Sundaram; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
