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authorChun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org>2017-02-16 00:03:04 +0800
committerChun-wei Fan <fanchunwei@src.gnome.org>2017-02-16 00:03:04 +0800
commit7605ee6aad05c6e33ecc53f49ae467bf13c6ae19 (patch)
tree43719e8af9b8e2d9d6a96e64dc8d0ad4a1bfcac4
parent5adecfa33d041eb6a61fba89b9f436cf6c7131c3 (diff)
downloadgjs-7605ee6aad05c6e33ecc53f49ae467bf13c6ae19.tar.gz
Visual Studio builds: Mention about SpiderMonkey 38 patch
Philip kindly provided a patch for SpiderMonkey's configure script to fix the .lib/.DLL naming issue that was mentioned in the previous update to win32/README.txt, so tell people about that alternative. See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775868#c56
-rw-r--r--win32/README.txt4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/win32/README.txt b/win32/README.txt
index 500f4db2..4aa9dbbc 100644
--- a/win32/README.txt
+++ b/win32/README.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ directory might not be what one may expect, which is likely due to bugs in its b
scripts. If this is the case, rename mozjs-.lib to mozjs-38.lib, and the
include directory from mozjs- to mozjs-38 (but please do *not* rename mozjs-.dll
and mozjs-.pdb, as they will be searched for when gjs-console.exe/gjs.exe runs,
-along with any program that uses the GJS DLL).
+along with any program that uses the GJS DLL). Otherwise, do (or redo) the
+SpiderMonkey build process (including running configure) after applying the patch
+from https://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/tree/patches/mozjs38-release-number.patch
The following are instructions for performing such a build, as there is a
number of build configurations supported for the build. Note that the default