Comments on: Building Mozilla SpiderMonkey for Mac OS X http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x You're reading Jeff Watkins' thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free. Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:06:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Charles Turner http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x/comment-page-1#comment-2985 Charles Turner Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:17:24 +0000 http://nerd.newburyportion.com/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x#comment-2985 <p>Hi-</p> <p>I took a slightly different approach that seems to work well. I was unsure about version incompatibility what with this page being about a year old. I installed originally from Fink, which has the latest versions of spidermonkey and nspr, but the file class didn't seem to function.</p> <p>I removed spidermonkey and spidermonky-shlibs that Fink had installed, leaving the Fink installation of nspr and readline5. I got the latest spidermonkey tarball (1.60) via the link above.</p> <p>I added the following lines to Makefile.ref (as per above):</p> <p>-I/sw/include/nspr -L/sw/lib</p> <p>I made no changes to the JS source files.</p> <p>I compiled with:</p> <p>make -f Makefile.ref JS<em>THREADSAFE=1 JS</em>HAS<em>FILE</em>OBJECT=1</p> <p>Not elaborately tested, but the file class seems to work now.</p> Hi-

I took a slightly different approach that seems to work well. I was unsure about version incompatibility what with this page being about a year old. I installed originally from Fink, which has the latest versions of spidermonkey and nspr, but the file class didn’t seem to function.

I removed spidermonkey and spidermonky-shlibs that Fink had installed, leaving the Fink installation of nspr and readline5. I got the latest spidermonkey tarball (1.60) via the link above.

I added the following lines to Makefile.ref (as per above):

-I/sw/include/nspr -L/sw/lib

I made no changes to the JS source files.

I compiled with:

make -f Makefile.ref JSTHREADSAFE=1 JSHASFILEOBJECT=1

Not elaborately tested, but the file class seems to work now.

]]> By: gavin hurley http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x/comment-page-1#comment-1314 gavin hurley Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:35:23 +0000 http://nerd.newburyportion.com/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x#comment-1314 <p>Yeah, if you don't need file support it's actually pretty easy to just build the interpreter. Detailed instructions (not that they're complicated) <a href="http://majuscule.blogspot.com/2005/11/compilling-spidermonkey-on-os-x.html" rel="nofollow">here</a></p> Yeah, if you don’t need file support it’s actually pretty easy to just build the interpreter. Detailed instructions (not that they’re complicated) here

]]> By: Jeff Watkins http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x/comment-page-1#comment-544 Jeff Watkins Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:59:09 +0000 http://nerd.newburyportion.com/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x#comment-544 <p>I'm not at my Mac right now, but I think all you need to do to build (without file support) is run:</p> <pre><code>make -f Makefile.ref </code></pre> <p>This uses the special <em>standalone</em> makefile. I don't recall ever running <code>./configure</code>.</p> I’m not at my Mac right now, but I think all you need to do to build (without file support) is run:

make -f Makefile.ref

This uses the special standalone makefile. I don’t recall ever running ./configure.

]]> By: manu3000 http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x/comment-page-1#comment-543 manu3000 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:51:08 +0000 http://nerd.newburyportion.com/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x#comment-543 <p>hi</p> <p>sorry, i'm pretty useless but i didn't manage to build SpiderMonkey (just building it on its own -- no file support) on my system (PPC 10.4) </p> <p>i tried ./configure from the /src directory (taht works usually) but here i got this depressing : " ./configure: No such file or directory " message !</p> <p>Can you help ? Thanks</p> hi

sorry, i’m pretty useless but i didn’t manage to build SpiderMonkey (just building it on its own — no file support) on my system (PPC 10.4)

i tried ./configure from the /src directory (taht works usually) but here i got this depressing : ” ./configure: No such file or directory ” message !

Can you help ? Thanks

]]> By: GazHay http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x/comment-page-1#comment-538 GazHay Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:19:39 +0000 http://nerd.newburyportion.com/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x#comment-538 <p>OK, got it, I downloaded nspr-4-6-2 source, navigated to that directory, and ran ./configure and then make I moved the resulting libnspr4.dylib file to the nspr-4-4-1/lib replacing the one that was there for ppc. I then built spidermonkey and stole the libs from firefox, and all is well.</p> OK, got it, I downloaded nspr-4-6-2 source, navigated to that directory, and ran ./configure and then make I moved the resulting libnspr4.dylib file to the nspr-4-4-1/lib replacing the one that was there for ppc. I then built spidermonkey and stole the libs from firefox, and all is well.

]]> By: Jeff Watkins http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x/comment-page-1#comment-537 Jeff Watkins Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:46:20 +0000 http://nerd.newburyportion.com/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x#comment-537 <p>Yeah, unfortunately, I don't have an Intel Mac, so this isn't something I can fix. If you have the details, please let me know. I'll update this post.</p> Yeah, unfortunately, I don’t have an Intel Mac, so this isn’t something I can fix. If you have the details, please let me know. I’ll update this post.

]]> By: GazHay http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x/comment-page-1#comment-536 GazHay Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:45:17 +0000 http://nerd.newburyportion.com/2006/07/building-mozilla-spidermonkey-for-mac-os-x#comment-536 <p>Further changes are required for building on Intel Macs, as the make command finds that the nspr build is for ppc, and does not match arch's return value i386.</p> Further changes are required for building on Intel Macs, as the make command finds that the nspr build is for ppc, and does not match arch’s return value i386.

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