How to install libjs (SpiderMonkey)
In Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) there’s no deb package for libjs. I needed to use version 1.8 of libjs with MediaTomb. Normally this would mean you download the source code for libjs and “./configure; make; make install” but the source code for libjs 1.8 doesn’t come with a configure script, or with an install target in the Makefile.ref file.
The SpiderMonkey Build Documentation is helpful in getting a build done, but points to some SpiderMonkey manual installation instructions that are no longer available. If you create a file called Makefile in the js/src directory with the contents shown below, you can issue the normal “make install” to install libjs. Better yet, you should install the “checkinstall” package and use:
checkinstall -D make install
This will create a debian package (-D) that does the same thing as “make install”.
Make sure you use a hard tab to indent the lines below “install:” target or else the Makefile won’t work. Since the build result is placed in a subdirectory named based on the system, you might have to adjust the BLD (look for the location of the libjs.so file). The PREFIX should probably be /usr when used with checkinstall, and /usr/local otherwise.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | BLD := Linux_All_OPT.OBJ #PREFIX := /usr/local PREFIX := /usr install: cp ${BLD}/libjs.so ${PREFIX}/lib cp ${BLD}/js ${PREFIX}/bin cp ${BLD}/jscpucfg ${PREFIX}/bin cp ${BLD}/jskwgen ${PREFIX}/bin mkdir -p ${PREFIX}/include/js cp *.h ${PREFIX}/include/js cp *.tbl ${PREFIX}/include/js cp ${BLD}/*.h ${PREFIX}/include/js |
I Use fedora to build the spidermonket js
but have a problem
i paste the code in a Makefile.ref and run
“make -f Makefile.ref”
Makefile:5: *** faltando o separador (você pensou em TAB ao invés de 8 espaços?). Pare.
If you did a copy-n-paste, you’ll need to change the spaces to real tabs as I explicitly stated in the paragraph right above the makefile.
You my friend just saved me hours and hours of work.
So thankful!!
The above method did not work for me with with Spider Monkey 1.8.0 RC1
cp: cannot stat `Linux_All_OPT.OBJ/libjs.so’: No such file or directory
This did:
cd js/src
make BUILD_OPT=1 -f Makefile.ref
checkinstall -D make BUILD_OPT=1 JS_DIST=/usr -f Makefile.ref export
For the 1.8.0 RC1, you need to change Linux_All_OPT.OBJ to Linux_All_DBG.OBJ
Why is build always static? I didn’t configure to be. I’m missing the libjs.so, the output is libjs-static.a