Subj : Hmm, I've gotten the File object to work in JSSHELL, but...
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : ajmayo@my-deja.com (Andrew Mayo)
Date : Thu Jan 29 2004 09:55 am

After some pain and suffering with MSVC, I've managed to finally
compile a version of JSSHELL that supports the File object, and it
appears to work.

This wasn't entirely painless; the paths in the supplied .DSP files
get screwed up somehow in migrating to Visual Studio 6 workspaces,
requiring that the fdlib paths be changed, (symptom: you can compile
once fine, when you exit and re-enter the project, nothing will
compile because the paths are now wrong) and then I found I had to
undef LAZY_STANDARD_CLASSES otherwise I kept getting an undefined
reference when running the one-line test

var x = new File('x.y');

I now have this much working but wanted to use the System and
Environment objects that according to README.HTML in the sh
subdirectory, are also included.

It seems, however, that to get these you have to include jssh.c.
Presumably this replaces js.c in the shell project, but attempting to
recompile with this results in an undefined reference to
js_NewFileObjectFromFILE which of course is a private function inside
the js library project.

Does anyone know how to get the Environment and System global objects
working?.

PS: I also discovered the jsdb project, which is based on Seamonkey
(http://www.workflowconcepts.com/jsdb/)

and this appears to work very well, but I would still have preferred
to finally get to grips with JSSHELL.

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