On 07/12/2012 03:20 AM, Sam Laidler wrote:
Hello, hope all is well.
I want to distribute NSS without the MS redistribution package. When I read the
following, I got the impression that it should be theoretically possible:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/USE_STATIC_LIBS
USE_STATIC_LIBS don't affect how the nss shared libraries are build,
only how the commands and tools are built. It statically links commands
with libnss.a rather than libnss3.so (well, sort of, it's really a
series of static libraries).
Even in this case, system shared libraries, and even some NSS shared
libraries (like libfreebl) are still external dependencies.
In both cases I got NSS to build but I found that nss3.dll had a dependency on
msvcr90.dll.
I did some Googling and found:
http://old.nabble.com/How-to-build-nspr%2Bnss-on-Windows-with-VS-2008-%28VC%2B%2B-9.0%29-td26081750.html
Here, Wan-Teh seemed to suggest that using the redistribution package was
unavoidable, whereas Nelson said you can use mozcrt19.dll instead.
Actually both Nelson and WTC are in agreement. If you look at the bug
Nelson points to, you will see that the default NSS does not have a way
of avoiding redistribution of the given package, however that bug
contains a patch Nelson uses to build NSS using mozcrt19.dll rather than
msvcr90.dll. If you apply Nelson's (3 year old patch), you may have
success in changing the dependency to the mozilla runtine.
I'm sorry, guys, but I'm a bit confused here.
* Am I doing something wrong when building NSS?
* I thought static linking relieved the obligation to distribute a
separate DLL. Or is it loaded at runtime into some kind of address space
instead?
It only removes the dependencies on most of the standard nss libraries
themselves. I believe you still need to dynamically link nspr, freebl
and the system libraries.
* If so, does that mean I should be able to simply drop the msvcr90.dll
into the working directory that contains a static build without worrying too
much about the side-by-side/manifest file stuff?
msvcr90.dll just needs to be in your path. If it's in the same directory
as nss3.dll, that should be sufficient.
* I also thought of trying to build NSPR/NSS with mozcrt19, but
struggled to find out how to do it. Would it help me to achieve what I want?
I believe if you just apply the patch Nelson has in the bug, it should
work. You'll need to get a mozcrt19.a from somewhere as well.
bob
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