Re: Building the latest NSS with VS 2013

Hello,

I would like to know this too!

Because the NSS build instructions say that we should install the same 
build prerequisites as described under "Building Firefox On Windows", I 
did exactly that. Spent like ~1/2 day to install Visual Studio 2017 
Update-6 (Update-7 was installed installed before, so I had to uninstall 
my version and re-install the older version) and Rust as well as latest 
Mozilla-Build. Then I checked out the NSS/NSPR sources via "hg" and 
tried to build, again exactly as described ("make nss_build_all"). But 
no luck!

I got error "expr: syntax error" (multiple times!) and then finally "No 
working C compiler found".

After read post by Franziskus Kiefer, I did everything again, but this 
time with Visual Studio 2013 Update-3 and old Mozilla-Build v2.2.0. This 
time it worked right away. If that is the only way to build NSS on 
Windows, the NSS build instructions should be corrected.

(Could have saved me a lot of time and headache ;-))

Best Regards
Daniel

On 30.07.2018 09:41, John Jiang wrote:
> Any new update on this point?
> Can I build NSS with VS2017 now?
>
> Best regards,
> John Jiang
>
> 2018-01-19 15:41 GMT+08:00 Franziskus Kiefer <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> using MozillaBuild 2.x with VS 2015 should work fine. That's the only
>> configuration at the moment that works for building NSS unfortunately.
>> We're working on new build instructions for Windows. But newer MozillaBuild
>> won't work and older VS version don't work either.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Franziskus
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 6:47 AM, John Jiang <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Using VS 2015 and MozillaBuild 2.2.0, the building finished successfully.
>>>
>>> In addition, I don't get proper reference for building NSS with VS 2017
>> and
>>> the latest MozillaBuild (3.3.1).
>>> By default, the last MozillaBuild cannot find VC++ and Windows Kits. It
>> may
>>> have to setup some environment variables.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> John Jiang
>>>
>>> 2018-01-12 14:21 GMT+08:00 John Jiang <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I need to build NSS with VS 2013 and MozillaBuild 2.2.0.
>>>>
>>>> Just found the building failed on NSS 3.33 and 3.34.1, exactly many
>> libs,
>>>> like nss3, ssl3, were missing.
>>>> But the building looked fine on NSS 3.32.1.
>>>> Does that mean the NSS versions later than 3.32.1 cannot be built with
>>>> VS2013?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> John Jiang
>>>>
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