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Wan-Teh Chang  
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 More options Oct 17 2007, 1:19 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.tech.crypto
From: "Wan-Teh Chang" <w...@google.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:19:52 -0700
Local: Wed, Oct 17 2007 1:19 pm
Subject: Re: Seeking help with Mozilla/NSS compilation
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On 10/17/07, D3||||!$ <e.kaba...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!!!

> I am new to SSL programming: currently trying to "play" with it... :-)

> I'm having some problems with compiling the sample client-server
> source code given on the Mozilla/NSS official site.

> I went through the code but found that it has been written using the
> NSPR source files. I had both, the NSS+NSPR source package as well as
> the binaries of the same. To make the things "idiot-proof", I put all
> the .C/.CPP/.hs in a single large include folder and then including
> it. I also included the libs, dlls & chks contained in the lib folder
> of the NSS binaries package. I finally ended up with some 40+ linker
> errors in the both, client_test.obj & server_test.obj & sslsamples.obj
> files. This makes me suspect that I've not/erroneously included some
> of the files necessary for compilation...

> Could you please tell me which files are required for the proper
> compilation of the project?

> Also, if you could tell me which files are required to be included for
> developing SSl applications(since before initializing NSS, NSPR has to
> be iniatilized..), I'll be extremely glad.

> Another thing which I wanted to enquire was that some of the files
> were .C while others were .CPP so what should I compile the source as:
> as C code or as CPP code?

You should compile the source as C code.

NSPR and NSS use GNU makefiles.  The build instructions
for NSS (including building NSPR) are at
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/nss-3.11.4/nss-3.11.....

The most difficult part is to install the prerequisite GNU make and
Unix utilities on your Windows machine.  Fortunately Ben Smedberg's
"MozillaBuild" package makes this real easy:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites#Mozi...

So install MozillaBuild and run the start-msvc8.bat batch file.
It'll start up a command shell running "bash".  In bash, the
command to set an environment variable "FOO" to 1 is

export FOO=1

There is an alternative: use our binary distributions:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/nspr/releases/v4.6.4/msvc6.0/...
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_1...

They were built using VC++ 6.0, but should work with VC++ 2005.

Even if you don't use the binary distributions, they still provide
a piece of useful information -- they only include the headers
and libraries that you need to develop an SSL app with NSS/NSPR.
You can also get this info from the build tree.

NSPR headers you need are in mozilla/dist/WIN954.0_OPT.OBJ/include,
except all the headers in mozilla/dist/WIN954.0_OPT.OBJ/include/md and
the header mozilla/dist/WIN954.0_OPT.OBJ/include/private/primpl.h.

NSS headers you need are in mozilla/dist/public/nss

The libraries you need:
Import libraries: nspr4.lib, plc4.lib, plds4.lib, nss3.lib, smime3.lib, ssl3.lib
DLLs: nspr4.dll, plc4.dll, plds4.dll, nss3.dll, softokn3.dll,
softokn3.chk, freebl3.dll, freebl3.chk, smime3.dll, ssl3.dll

Note: the binary data files softokn3.chk and freebl3.chk are
needed for using NSS in the FIPS mode.

Wan-Teh


 
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