Subj : Re: Building thread-safe SpiderMonkey for Win32
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Wed Mar 17 2004 10:05 am

Bob Kline wrote:
> 
> There actually is support for using gmake on Windows under cygwin.  It's 
> just broken by a disconnect between the SpiderMonkey and NSPR 
> assumptions about where the NSPR components can be found.  See my last 
> two responses to Benjamin Smedberg in this ng thread.  Can a thread-safe 
> SpiderMonkey be built without NSPR?

Not without emulating a bunch of NSPR thread, lock, and condvar APIs on 
top of native threads -- which amounts to reimplementing NSPR in those 
repects, which is silly given NSPR's portability.

Let's just fix the build system disconnect.  How hard can that be?

/be

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