From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 1 03:36:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C88116A405 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 03:36:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [64.129.166.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31AA713C44B for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 03:36:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.42.21] (andersonbox1.centtech.com [192.168.42.21]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l313atHS090667; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:36:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <460F28D7.6070607@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:36:55 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Grochowski References: <460E7F26.1060901@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/2987/Sat Mar 31 22:15:28 2007 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,INFO_TLD autolearn=no version=3.1.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.6 (2006-10-03) on mh1.centtech.com Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Port for nspluginwrapper X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:36:57 -0000 On 03/31/07 17:44, Dave Grochowski wrote: > Hey, > > Eric Anderson wrote: >> On 03/30/07 21:01, Dave Grochowski wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> I wrote a port for nspluginwrapper, which you can find at: >>> >>> http://elvis.rowan.edu/~grocho98/nspluginwrapper.tar.bz2 >>> >>> For those who do not know what it is, you can find the homepage at: >>> >>> http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/ >>> >>> Basically, it allows you to run Linux/i386 browser plugins on the >>> native browsers of other architectures and operating systems. To use >>> it, simply install the appropriate plugins you would like from ports >>> (I tried it with www/linux-flashplugin9, but others should work just >>> as well) and then install nspluginwrapper. As a regular user, run >>> "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i" to automagically find the plugins on you >>> system and enable them for use in Firefox. Now, the plugins should >>> work in your browser. I tried it with Flash 9 and both the graphics >>> and sound worked. Unfortunately, Flash 9 is a bit buggy for me and >>> crashed frequently, but I had the same issue when using the plugin >>> with www/linux-firefox as well. >>> >>> I think the port is pretty complete, but I have only tried it on >>> FreeBSD/i386 6-STABLE and FreeBSD/i386 7-CURRENT. It should work on >>> amd64, but I don't have a machine to test it on. If the port is >>> acceptable, I would not mind maintaining it, except for the fact that >>> I obviously do not have a commit bit (though that probably is not a >>> huge issue). >>> >>> Any comments would be greatly appreciated. >> Installs ok, but didn't seem to find any plugins, even with the >> linux-flash9 installed. If I try to point it at the flash plugin >> directly, it says something like: "not a valid nspluginwrapper plugin" >> >> >> Eric >> > Try running "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i". I have a typo in the > pkg-message. I'll reupload it later tonight. Oh. Yes, that makes it work better. Thanks! One thing to mention - it creates core dumps each time I access flash media. I've got flash9 installed, and most flash play until the end, then core dump (segfault sig 11). A few core dump in the middle. I have a core dump, but have not attempted to compile the port with debugging installed yet. npviewer.bin seems to be the core file creator. Eric