Re: Need help building LDAP C SDK with SSL support

Dennis Darch wrote:

> Thank you for your suggestions.  I switched to using the current released 
> source code (i.e. mozldap-6.0.4.tar.gz and nss-3.11.9-with-nspr-4.7.tar.gz), 
> and managed to get them to compile and work.
> 
> On UNIX, the instructions on http://wiki.mozilla.org/LDAP_C_SDK were all I 
> needed (plus BUILD_OPT=1 and "--enable-optimize --disable-debug" to produce 
> non-debug versions).  But on Windows I did have to work around three 
> problems.  I am documenting those problems here, in case someone else needs 
> the information and/or the developers wish to address them.  

[Long list of cygwin-related build issues snipped for brevity.]

The solution to these issues is: don't use cygwin.

cygwin is no longer the recommended build environment for Mozilla products
on Windows.  Mozilla now offers a set of build tools based on MinGW that
work without all the headaches.

Regards,
/Nelson