################################################################################ The Javascript engine used by CouchDB is Mozilla Spidermonkey. Prior to 1.8.5 js185 there was no formal release for it, so you can build from anywhere on trunk. The 1.8.x source below js18x is also used on the Mac OS X homebrew build of CouchDB.
to build and install SpiderMonkey we use the mozilla tools chain.
run c:\mozilla-build\start-msvc9.bat
even if you are on a 64-bit platform.
do a sanity check to confirm the MS build compilers are present via which cl link mc lc mt
you may need to fudge the path if cl.exe
can't be found using PATH=$PATH:/c/relax/VC/VC/bin/:/c/relax/SDK/bin:/c/relax/VC/Common7/IDE:/c/relax/VC/VC/bin/amd64/:/c/relax/VC/VC/bin/x86_ia64/
to build Spidermonkey JS 1.8.x js18x
cd /c/relax tar xzf bits/57a6ad20eae9.tar.gz cd ./tracemonkey-57a6ad20eae9/js/src autoconf-2.13 export CXXFLAGS='-D_BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION=1' ./configure --enable-static --enable-shared-js make
alternatively to build Spidermonkey JS 1.8.5 js185
cd /c/relax tar xzf bits/js185-1.0.0.tar.gz cd ./js-1.8.5/js/src autoconf-2.13 export CXXFLAGS='-D_BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION=1' ./configure --enable-static --enable-shared-js make
The CouchDB configure script is used later on to select which version of Spidermonkey is used.