NSS/Build System

Prerequisites to building with gyp

• a recent version of gyp and ninja.
• a build environment with pkg-config, make, configure
• the NSPR source
• the NSS source

Steps to build with gyp

1. Build NSPR
   1. mkdir nspr-build && cd nspr-build
   2. ../nspr/configure (with --enable-64bit on a 64-bit system)
   3. make
2. Build NSS
   1. cd ../nss
   2. PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/nspr-build/config gyp -f ninja -Dnspr_cflags='-I/path/to/nspr-build/dist/include/nspr' -Dnspr_libs='-L/path/to/nspr-build/dist/lib -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4' --depth=. nss.gyp
   3. ninja -C out/Debug/

Build Options

• 32-bit builds on 64-bit machines: -Dtarget_arch=ia32
• disable_tests
• disable_dbm
• disable_libpkix
• ssl_enable_zlib
• mozilla_client