NSPR is a legacy library. We do not recommend using it in new projects.
It is maintained primarily for existing Mozilla code that still depends
on it; modern platform and standard-library facilities should be
preferred instead.
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.
{ref}About NSPR
: This topic describes, in general terms, the goals of NSPR and a bit about how it does it.
{ref}NSPR API Reference
: The reference describes each API public macro, structure and function in the NSPR API.
{ref}NSPR build instructions
: How to checkout and build from source.
{ref}NSPR release procedure
: How to cut a new NSPR release: bumping the version and producing the distributions.
{ref}NSPR listing
: All NSPR pages
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NSPR is available in various source and binary packages, depending on your platform:
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Windows: Build the source package, using the {ref}
NSPR build instructions. -
Mac: Install the MacPorts nspr package, or the Homebrew nspr package.
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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
yastorzypper:- 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
View Mozilla forums:
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- {ref}
Networking, {ref}Network Security Services (NSS)