Max, Thanks for the quick response. But I didn't get any relevant hits on this from bugzilla http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ when searching for either "MinGW" or "cygwin".
Any ideas? Thanks Divya -----Original Message----- From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 9:16 AM To: Divya Sundaram; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Building Mozilla Tools under CYGWIN Divya Sundaram 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 don't have that to install. I would > like to build this SDK using only CYGWIN tools. > > FWIW: I need this to build the PerLDAP Modules for Perl. > > Any built these tools without using MSVC++ components? Other > useful advice? There is an ongoing effort to make Win32 Mozilla compile with MinGW GCC. Searching in Mozilla's Bugzilla should find it. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
