From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 16:46:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4EC16A420 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:46:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout7.cac.washington.edu (mxout7.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2BA13C4D9 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:46:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout7.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.06) with ESMTP id l71GkEb6032588 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:46:14 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-24-10-12-194.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.10.12.194]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l71GkDRx010043 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:46:14 -0700 Message-ID: <46B0B8D4.1070907@u.washington.edu> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:46:12 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Windows/20070716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW References: <46AA5977.9080206@pcbsd.com> <20070801134630.60b9a9b8@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20070801134630.60b9a9b8@gumby.homeunix.com.> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.3.310218, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.8.1.92153 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are we ready for Native Flash? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:46:15 -0000 RW wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:45:43 -0700 > Kris Moore wrote: > > >> Hey, just wanted to give folks a heads up. I'm hearing that we may be >> seeing a native Flash binary for FreeBSD in the future, depending on >> how quick we can port over Tamarin: >> >> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ >> >> They are working on a Linux port now, if anybody is interested in >> getting a FBSD port done that will help us a TON in getting Adobe to >> release Flash9 in a native FreeBSD format. No more Linux-emulation >> just to surf the web! >> > > > How does that actually work? It reads as if ecma runs on its > own virtual machine. So presumably if Flash were developed to run on > this it would be platform independent, and there wouldn't be a need > for *any* native Flash versions. > > If ecma is ready in 2008, is there a realistic possibility of Flash > working in the same year. > I got it to compile properly on i386 after some hacking, but the original authors were bad and assumed that the architecture is always 32-bit, so when I tried to compile amd64 it failed miserably. I'm going to try and get the 64-bit copy to compile sometime within the next week or two. -Garrett