Re: building spidermonkey 1.8.5 on windows 10 with VS 2019

For more recent (60+) versions of SpiderMonkey, we are starting to collect more straightforward examples for embedders at https://github.com/spidermonkey-embedders/spidermonkey-embedding-examples

SpiderMonkey 1.8.5 was released around 2011 and the engine has evolved considerably since then. I believe projects like CouchDB are using SpiderMonkey 1.8.5 and I see they have build instructions for VS2013, but not 2019.

--Ted

On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 3:43:51 AM UTC-4, Miles wrote:
> On Friday, 21 June 2019 12:38:09 UTC+1, Drew Fletcher  wrote:
> > hi, this is obviously a broad question but has anyone had success building spidermonkey 1.8.5 on windows 10? I have attempted to run the configure script in the mozilla build shell with some modifications made to no avail. Essentially, I have edited out portions in the configure script that do checks on the tools being used to compile the program in the hopes of getting around them and being able go compile as-is. but i have run into multiple compilation issues with the conf c files. is it even possible to build 1.8.5 on windows 10?
> 
> Hi Drew. We have managed to build Spidermonkey 1.8.5 on Windows 10 using VS 2017. It definitely required hacking the start up scripts for MOzillaBuild (I think we had an old version 2.0 of MozillaBuild that we hacked), some of the configure scripts and I think we also needed to make a few changes to the source code to get it compile. So I suspect we had to do the same sort of things for VS 2017 as you are facing for VS 2019.
> Let me know if you want any more information and I'll try to help.
> 
> Miles