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- libcurl with NSS
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- Author: Daniel Stenberg
- Date: June 24, 2008
- NSS home => http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
- libcurl can be built to use the NSS libraries for SSL/TLS. Invoke configure
- --without-ssl --with-nss.
- The source code in lib/nss.c currently cause a compiler warning due to the
- lack of a prototype. The prototype is provided by the public header provided
- by NSS called "base64.h". But since we use a private header in libcurl named
- identically, we cannot include the NSS one.
- This problem persists because:
- * NSS doesn't use a properly established separate subdir for their include
- files. Instead different distros have put them in /usr/include/nss and
- /usr/include/nss3 etc.
- * The pkg-config output for NSS provides a full -I path to the nss include dir,
- so we cannot #include <nss/base64.h> or <nss3/base64.h>. This too may be due
- to how distros do it.
- * I tried getting the (all new in June 2008) NSS 3.12 tarball to check how it
- behaves out-of-box but this wouldn't even build - complaining on missing
- files that aren't included in the tarball. The tarball doesn't even include
- build instuctions but you must hunt them down on their web site.
- Due to these design problems we may of course get further similar problems in
- the future, but I hope we can work them out somehow along the way.
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