Subj : Synchronet v3.30 development started (*new* JavaScript library!)
To   : deon
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Apr 12 2026 01:43:11

  Re: Synchronet v3.30 development started (*new* JavaScript library!)
  By: Digital Man to deon on Fri Apr 10 2026 10:23 am

 >   Re: Synchronet v3.30 development started (*new* JavaScript library!)
 >   By: deon to Digital Man on Fri Apr 10 2026 09:28 pm
 >
 >  >  > The last 24 hours has been the first time that Synchronet has run
 >  >  > (mind you, just experimentally on Vertrauen) with a new JavaScript
 >  >  > library (libmozjs-128) in many years!
 >
 >  > Yay :)
 >
 >  >  > It's still too early for others to run this development branch for
 >  >  > their BBS, but I just wanted to give you all the news and a head's up
 >  >  > that *some* existing JavaScript files won't be immediately compatible
 >  >  > with the next big Synchronet version bump (I'm calling v3.30).
 >
 >  > Is it in a branch (I just went and had a look - "next-js")? Can we play
 >  > with it and perhaps help identify the incompatibilities, or do we just
 >  > have to patient and wait?
 >
 > If you really want to build and run it, yes, the branch is 'next-js', but
 > there are plenty of known issues (e.g. no Windows build support yet) and
 > many of the stock scripts still fail with errors.
 >
 >  > Hoping as part of the SBBS build we can use an OS supplied library to
 >  > save on build time?
 >
 > Yes, the plan is to use the system's libmozjs-dev-128 package if/while there
 > is one. For Windows, I'll continue to vendor the built binaries and headers
 > in the repo for Windows (only).
 >
 > And speaking of Windows, this does mean the end of Windows 7 support for new
 > Synchronet versions: Spidermonkey 128 only supports Windows 8 and later. But
 > gladly, Spidermonkey 128 still supports 32-bit Windows editions (of 8 and
 > 10).

Claude Code has come up to speed just to in time really help with this pretty massive task:

                 Synchronet BBS for Win32  Version 3.30  Debug

              Revision A  Apr 11 2026 23:01  SMBLIB 3.21  MSC 1944

                 https://gitlab.synchro.net - next-js/801645ba9

                Copyright 2026 Rob Swindell - http://synchro.net

                              JavaScript-C128.14.1

A 64-bit Windows build should be soon possible as well...
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