Subj : Exception in Mozila JS DLL
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Sep 02 2021 08:34 am

  Re: Exception in Mozila JS DLL
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Aug 16 2021 05:12 pm

 >> I got a screenshot of Visual Studio which I probably should have
 >> shared earlier.  The call stack didn't seem to show much useful
 >> information though: 

 >> https://i.imgur.com/Qb6Lewz.png

 DM> Yeah, looks like maybe the callstack was corrupted. If you could build
 DM> your own mozjs185-1.0.dll from source, you'd have the debug symbols and
 DM> could maybe get more helpful details. 

Have you ever built mozjs185-1.0.dll yourself?  The source doesn't include Visual Studio project files, though it has a makefile.  I tried searching online for the best way to build mozjs 1.8.5 on Windows, and found some fairly old pages mentioning things like using MozillaBuild, etc., and other people wanting to build it with Visual Studio 2019 and having difficulties.

I tried following one page's instructions using MozillaBuild, though I still ran into issues with that.  MozillaBuild has a *nix-like command prompt for Windows, and when running configure, it said it couldn't find a suitable CC executable on my system and aborted.

At this point I've thought about trying to just create a new DLL project in Visual Studio, including all the source, and trying to build it; I haven't tried that yet though.

 DM> I know Deuce has been working on a major update to sbbs to use a modern JS
 DM> library, so worst case, you could just wait till that lands in the master
 DM> branch and this problem probably likely goes away (to be replaced by new
 DM> ones). :-)

At this point I might end up waiting for that. :)

Nightfox

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