298287 - details missing from Windows build instructions

Status: NEW

(NSS :: Documentation, defect, P3)

Description

[Neil Williams]

The instructions for building NSS on Windows are incomplete. The latest docs I
could find were in
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/nss-3.9/nss-3.9-build.html

They failed to mention the following.

CONFIG_SHELL must be set in the environment before running gmake nss_build_all.

Ml.exe is required (MASM32). Build instructions for NSS 3.1.1 have 2 links to
sources for ml. The second link is no longer valid.

A copy of zip is required. (Could refer to www.info-zip.org.)

Comment 1

[Neil Williams]

In addition to the items mentioned in the initial report the DOMSUF variable
must be set prior to running nss/tests/all.sh.

Also I was unable to build the tree with cygwin. The nsprpub subtree builds but
not nss. The problem seems to be that the path prefix "/cydrive/c/..." is not
set for nss as it is for nsprpub.