Linking a C++ program with SpiderMonkey?

Question

I successfully compiled spidermonkey (on windows), how can I link against it now (to embed it)?

js-config is not properly installed, and I don't understand this workaround.

Linking to the static library should be easier, but I don't even know which file it is. I have mozglue.lib, mozjs-43a1.lib, nspr4.lib, plc4.lib, plds4.lib in dist/sdk/lib and nspr4.lib, plc4.lib, plds4.lib in dist/lib.

Update

js-config was not working because I had this problem (-bash: '\r': command not found because of Windows/Unix newline characters problem, I ran dos2unix js-config and I could run it).

However, the output does not help (on windows):

$ ./js-config --cflags -std=gnu++0x -include /usr/local/include/mozjs-43a1/js/RequiredDefines.h -I/usr/local/include/mozjs-43a1 -Ic:/Users/Yvain/Documents/mozilla-central/js/src/build_OPT.OBJ/dist/include/nspr

$ ./js-config --libs ${libdir}/${JS_LIBRARY_NAME}.lib c:/Users/Yvain/Documents/mozilla-central/js/src/build_OPT.OBJ/dist/lib/nspr4.lib c:/Users/Yvain/Documents/mozilla-central/js/src/build_OPT.OBJ/dist/lib/plc4.lib c:/Users/Yvain/Documents/mozilla-central/js/src/build_OPT.OBJ/dist/lib/plds4.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winmm.lib wsock32.lib advapi32.lib psapi.lib

Notes

I used the following command to compile:

g++ -std=c++11 -I<objdir>/dist/include -L<objdir>/dist/lib helloworld.cpp -o helloworld  -lmozjs-31 -lz -lpthread -ldl 

I know it is not the correct way to compile it since those libraries are not in <objdir>/dist/lib. It returns the following errors:

[...]/jscpucfg.h:121:3: erreur:
#error "Cannot determine endianness of your platform. Please add support to jscpucfg.h."
[...]
erreur: ‘JS_EvaluateScript’ was not declared in this scope

This question seems to draw some attention. Note that I asked the same question for V8.

Answer 1

The idea behind the work around is to run js-config --libs and put the result in JSAPI_LD_FLAGS, possibly filter out things on Darwin, and then append JSAPI_LD_FLAGS to your LDFLAGS so you can link the right libraries.

So for your library question, the answer is to get js-config built and then run it with --libs

Likewise, you would create your CFLAGS using a combination of the CFLAGS you need already and the output of js-config --cflags . This is something you may have already found yourself doing with the nifty pkg-config utility for other libraries.

This doesn't solve the endianness problem. Why don't you just run the configure script?