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NSPR
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====
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**Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR)** provides a platform-neutral API for
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system level and libc-like functions. The API is used in the Mozilla
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clients, many of Red Hat's and Oracle's server applications, and other
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software offerings.
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Documentation
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-------------
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:ref:`About NSPR`
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This topic describes, in general terms, the goals of NSPR and a bit
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about how it does it.
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:ref:`NSPR API Reference`
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The reference describes each API public macro, structure and function
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in the NSPR API.
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:ref:`NSPR build instructions`
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How to checkout and build from source.
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:ref:`NSPR listing`
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All NSPR pages
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.. _Getting_NSPR:
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Getting NSPR
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------------
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NSPR is available in various source and binary packages, depending on
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your platform:
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- **Windows:** Build the source package, using the :ref:`NSPR build
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instructions`.
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- **Mac:** Install the `MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/>`__ *nspr*
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package, or the `Homebrew <http://brew.sh>`__ *nspr* package.
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- **Ubuntu:** Install the *libnspr4-dev* package via ``apt-get.``
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- **Debian:** Install the *libnspr4-dev* package via ``apt-get``.
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- **openSUSE Linux:** Install one or more of the following via ``yast``
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or ``zypper`` :
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- *mozilla-nspr* : Binary libraries for your platform
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- *mozilla-nspr-32bit* : Binary libraries needed to run 32-bit
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programs on a 64-bit OS
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- *mozilla-nspr-devel* : Files needed (in addition to the above
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libraries) to compile programs using NSPR
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- *mozilla-nspr-debuginfo* : Debug information (including build
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symbols) for package *mozilla-nspr*
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- *mozilla-nspr-debuginfo-32bit* : Debug information (including
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build symbols) for package *mozilla-nspr-32bit*
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- *mozilla-nspr-debugsource* : Debug sources for all of the above
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Community
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View Mozilla forums:
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- `Mailing list <https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-nspr>`__
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- `Newsgroup <http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.nspr>`__
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- `RSS
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feed <http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.nspr/feeds>`__
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.. _Related_Topics:
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Related Topics
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--------------
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- :ref:`Networking`, :ref:`Network Security Services (NSS)`
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