From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 31 22:44:40 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 CBCE616A402 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:44:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davegro@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc1-s19.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s19.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71FA13C45B for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:44:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davegro@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com ([65.55.132.24]) by bay0-omc1-s19.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:44:40 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:44:40 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 68.45.124.27 by BAY127-DAV14.phx.gbl with DAV; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:44:38 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [68.45.124.27] X-Originating-Email: [davegro@hotmail.com] X-Sender: davegro@hotmail.com Message-ID: <460EE44D.50805@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:44:29 -0400 From: Dave Grochowski User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061110) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org References: <460E7F26.1060901@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <460E7F26.1060901@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Mar 2007 22:44:40.0472 (UTC) FILETIME=[2B044180:01C773E6] 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 22:44:40 -0000 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. Sincerely, Dave Grochowski