Javascript

################################################################################ 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.