Installation instructions for spidermonkey Python / Javascript bridge
module.

The build process is a bit messy, sorry.  I'll probably bundle the
spidermonkey code eventually (and I suppose Pyrex shouldn't be
required, either).  I've not tested on any platform other than Linux,
but this should work on any platform where spidermonkey compiles.

1. Get spidermonkey and compile it (I'm using 1.5).  Install the
   header files and libjs.so somewhere sensible (eg. *.h files in
   /usr/local/include/js, libjs.so in /usr/local/lib).  Remember to
   install the header files from the platform-specific build
   directory here too (ie. the *.h files from eg. Linux_All_DBG.OBJ).
   To allow your system to find libjs.so, you may need to do
   something like running ldconfig (perhaps after editing
   /etc/ld.so.conf), or setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment
   variable.

2. Edit setup.cfg to suit your system (or supply appropriate command
   line arguments).  In particular, you need to edit include_dirs to
   say where you installed the spidermonkey headers.

3. Get Pyrex and install it (I'm using 0.8.2).

4. python setup.py build

   (don't worry about the compiler warnings).  Then, with appropriate
   permissions:

   python setup.py install


To test:

python test.py


Note that one of the tests currently prints out a JS error message.
This isn't a test failure (though it is a bug).


John J. Lee <jjl@pobox.com>, October 2003.