SpiderMonkey

ckyle · Post by **ckyle** » April 27th, 2011, 4:25 pm

I believe I have correctly built SpiderMonkey, for Windows, from the source code. But am having a problem using SpiderMonkey within a Visual Studio project. First I'll describe how I got the source code, and then how I built it. After that I'll describe how I've set up my Visual Studio 2005 project, and then the problem that I'm having.

I am using Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2005.

I installed the Windows Build Prerequisites as described here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Develo ... requisites

I installed MozillaBuild:
I now have a c:\mozilla-build directory with files

I installed the correct version of the Windows SDK as described by this page: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Windows_SDK_versions
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//Visual C++ 8 (VS2005) Professional
//Download and install the Windows 7 SDK.
//Install this Microsoft hotfix to allow linking to work correctly.

I downloaded the source code, using the following command in MozillaBuild:
hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/

The SpiderMonkey source code is now in c:\mozilla-central\js\src

I follow the build instructions on this page:
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Spider ... umentation

I launch MozillaBuild from the command shell:

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    c:\mozilla-build\start-msvc8.bat  (VS 2005)

In the MozillaBuild shell, I use the following commands:

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  cd /c/mozilla-central/js/src
  autoconf-2.13
  ./configure
  make

So far, so good. No errors.

HERE IS WHERE THINGS GET MURKY FOR ME... I'M FUMBLING AROUND AND COULD USE SOME GUIDANCE (MUCH APPRECIATED).

Now I want to create a Visual Studio 2005 project, that uses SpiderMonkey. I believe the build process creates a DLL by default. The page does describe how to create a static library as well. For now I will try to use the DLL.

First, I need to go into the "Project/Properties" menu and then go to "Configuration Properties" in the tree.
Then I use the "C/C++" and "Linker" nodes in the tree to set up some stuff.

In my source code I set up the following directives:

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   #define XP_WIN
   #include "jsapi.h"

In my Project/Properties, I set up the following:

Other notes. The build creates these files, they look like the relevant ones?

Also, I put the mozjs.dll file in my project directory.

Okay!

So far this has been an 8-10 hour process figuring everything out. I'm excited, but wary.

So in wWinMain() I put a little source code to see if I can use SpiderMonkey.

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    JSRuntime *rt; 
    rt = JS_NewRuntime(0x100000);

And I am greeted by this message:
"Unable to Locate Component"
"The application has failed to start because MSVCR80.dll was not found."

So it looks as if my little project compiles okay, and links okay. But when I launch the project there's that message about MSVCR80.dll.

So I turn to old man Google. For 6 hours. And still I can't figure out what my next step should be.

Thanks in advance for any help and pointers. I don't like asking other people to do my dirty-work for me, but I am so close, yet so far away. I can almost taste all that SpiderMonkey goodness. But I can't figure out this last bit. Thank you!

Cork