Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides a platform-neutral API for system level and libc-like functions. The API is used in the Mozilla clients, many of Red Hat's and Oracle's server applications, and other software offerings.
Documentation
- About NSPR
- This topic describes, in general terms, the goals of NSPR and a bit about how it does it.
- NSPR API Reference
- The reference describes each API public macro, structure and function in the NSPR API.
- NSPR build instructions
- How to checkout and build from source.
- NSPR release process
- How to prepare an NSPR release.
- Legacy NSPR Content
- Older NSPR content is available in SVN for browsing and/or migration to this site
Getting NSPR
NSPR is available in various source and binary packages, depending on your platform:
- Windows: Build the source package, using the NSPR build instructions.
- Mac: Install the MacPorts nspr package, or the Homebrew nspr package.
- Ubuntu: Install the libnspr4-dev package via
apt-get.
- Debian: Install the libnspr4-dev package via
apt-get.
- openSUSE Linux: Install one or more of the following via
yast or zypper :
- mozilla-nspr : Binary libraries for your platform
- mozilla-nspr-32bit : Binary libraries needed to run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit OS
- mozilla-nspr-devel : Files needed (in addition to the above libraries) to compile programs using NSPR
- mozilla-nspr-debuginfo : Debug information (including build symbols) for package mozilla-nspr
- mozilla-nspr-debuginfo-32bit : Debug information (including build symbols) for package mozilla-nspr-32bit
- mozilla-nspr-debugsource : Debug sources for all of the above