Subj : Re: Does Spidermonkey JavaScript shell js.exe build on Windows?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Tue Mar 29 2005 02:39 pm

Serge GAUTHERIE wrote:
> Martin Honnen wrote:
> 
>>
>> To explore the E4X (ECMAScript for XML) extensions to JavaScript I 
>> sometimes pull mozilla/js via CVS and build js.exe, using Cygwin make 
>> tool with MS compiler and linker on Windows XP, simply by running
>>   make -f Makefile.ref
>> That used to work for me but today I pulled the source and tried to 
>> build but linking of js.exe fails, with the error messages
>>   js.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
>> '_js_GetScriptLineExtent', referenced in function '_GetSLX'
>>   WINNT5.1_DBG.OBJ/js.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved external 
>> reference
> 
> 
> Brendan did make 1+ checkin related to this "symbol/function" today...


Sorry about that -- Linux's toolchain doesn't require the declspec jazz 
that Windows' does, so it workedforme.

/be

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