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1. Download the Spidermonkey source from following link.

2. Extract the tarball to directory somewhere in your system. It will create ‘js’ sub directory.

Derectory Structure look like tihs:

. .. jsd/ READMe src/
3. Then change to the ’src’ directory.

4. Use ‘make -f Makefile.ref’ to build the source.

When tried to installing under Uuntu Edgy (6.10) you can ended up with following compiling errors.

It turns out these errors were caused by the -g debugging flag when compiling jscpucfg.

Please change the following part of config.mk which is under src directory

120: ifdef USE_MSVC
121: OPTIMIZER  = -Zi
122: else
123: OPTIMIZER  = -g
124: endif
125: DEFINES    += -DDEBUG -DDEBUG_$(shell whoami)

to

120: ifdef USE_MSVC
121: OPTIMIZER  = -Zi
122: else
123: OPTIMIZER  = 
124: endif
125: DEFINES    += -DDEBUG -DDEBUG_$(shell whoami)

5. When build is complete you shuold see some messages probably similar to this.

This says the build was successful. libjs.so is stored inside ‘Linux_All_DBG.OBJ’ directory.

6. Now you can use these commands to move the libs and headers to default locationd.

Once you follow these steps Spidermonkey is successfully installed in your system.