Re: issue with file prcpucfg.h while building nspr on Windows

On 8/2/07, franck.fr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I try to build nspr (nspr-4.6.7.tar.gz) on Windows XP SP2 with VC2005
> express using Cygwin. The command-line I use is:
>
> set path=C:\tools\cygwin\bin
> call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\SetEnv.Cmd" /XP32 /DEBUG
> call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86
> sh configure --enable-debug-rtl
> cd pr/src
> make clean all

The problem is caused by "cd pr/src".  You should stay in the current
directory (mozilla/nsprpub, where 'configure' is) and do "make clean all".

The reason is that you also need to do "make" in other directories such
as pr/include, lib/ds, and lib/libc.  The top-level makefile in mozilla/nsprpub
will handle that.

In particular, doing "make" in pr/include will create the prcpucfg.h file.
On Windows, it is created from mozilla/nsprpub/pr/include/md/_winnt.h
or _win95.h.

By the way, NSPR has two implementations for Windows.  For
historical reasons, the default one (called "WINNT") is not appropriate
for general use.  I suggest that you pass --enable-win32-target=WIN95
to 'configure'.  Don't be turned off by the name "WIN95".  It is a historical
name.  It really means generic WIN32.

Wan-Teh