From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 31 15:32:55 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 C1EB616A401 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:32:55 +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 9746913C4AD for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:32:55 +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 l2VFWsgt064596; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:32:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <460E7F26.1060901@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:32:54 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Grochowski References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/2980/Sat Mar 31 10:12:45 2007 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 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: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:32:55 -0000 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