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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:02:07 -0700
From:      Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org>
To:        Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GPL Flash Plugin in Mozilla 0.9.3 on FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20010820130206.A18029@helios.soupnazi.org>
In-Reply-To: <200108201119.f7KBJSR04624@netrinsics.com>
References:  <200108201119.f7KBJSR04624@netrinsics.com>

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On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 at 19:19:28 +0800, Michael Robinson wrote:
> I compiled the GPL Flash plugin from http://www.swift-tools.com on
> FreeBSD (-CURRENT 01/31/01).  After working around a few linuxisms, I
> was able to get what appears to be a good npflash.so (the standalone
> player, "swfplayer", from the same compilation works successfully).
> 
> I placed npflash.so in the $(MOZILLA)/plugins directory, however, when
> I go to "about:plugins", I get the following console output (with no
> mention of npflash on the status page):
> 
> ------- ********** Got plugins path:
> /usr/local/src/mozilla/mozilla/dist/bin/plugins
> IsPluginFile(/usr/local/src/mozilla/mozilla/modules/plugin/default/unix/libnullplugin.so)
> LoadPlugin()
> /usr/local/src/mozilla/mozilla/modules/plugin/default/unix/libnullplugin.so
> returned 8e384a0 GetMIMEDescription() returned "*:.*:All types"
> IsPluginFile(/usr/local/src/mozilla/mozilla/dist/bin/plugins/npflash.so)
> LoadPlugin()
> /usr/local/src/mozilla/mozilla/dist/bin/plugins/npflash.so returned 0
> Document about:plugins loaded successfully -------
> 
> Has anyone had any better luck?

Just a thought... try adding /usr/X11R6/lib (and maybe /usr/local/lib)
to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH line in run-mozilla.sh.

- jim

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