Subj : spidermonkey and win32 questions
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : lord.darius@caramail.com (Darius)
Date : Thu Dec 11 2003 01:40 am

Hello,

I intend to embed the Javascript SpiderMonkey engine in a win32 freeware
application, so I've downloaded the sources, compiled them, run the tests. Now
there are some questions i'd like to ask :

1) I need to link spidermonkey as a static library, but when i do so, i get some
linking warnings caused by the use of declspec(dllimport) when building jsshell,
declaration obviously not required in that case. So my solution was to patch
jstypes.h to check for a _STATIC preprocessor variable disabling
declspec(dllimport), variable that I define for a static library build config.
Is it ok to do so ? I mean, is static linking officially supported by
spidermonkey on win32 ? And what about multithreading issues ? Can i safely use
the engine with the win32 synchronisation api or do i have to use NSPR (assuming
i'll use 1 context per thread)? And is the fact of `modifying' it for freeware
use a licencing issue ?

2) For testing purpose, I compiled js and jsshell using the default release
configuration (on win2k pro sp4, msvc++ 6, js 1.5 rc5a, and the /OPT:NOICF flag)
and i run the tests suite provided separately, omitting all liveconnect tests.
My results are : 1069 test(s) selected, 1064 test(s) completed, 15 failures
reported (1.4% failed), and one of these failing tests made jsshell crash. Is it
a real problem ? (If someone is interested, I can mail the full result file)

Regards,
D.

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