John Smith 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 would like to build this SDK using only CYGWIN tools.

You need MSVC++. I don't think the code has been ported to use the GNU/cygwin compiler.



FWIW: I need this to build the PerLDAP Modules for Perl.


Any built these tools without using MSVC++ components?

You could just grab the binaries. LDAP C SDK and PerLDAP binaries are available in the Netscape DS 6.11 release. You can't use the directory server (unless you pay :-) but you can use the LDAP SDK and PerLDAP and nsPerl stuff for free.


http://sbsdownload.netscape.com/download/product.cgi?Product=1



Other useful advice? Thanks in advance ...


Divya Sundaram



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