Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:32:54 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Dave Grochowski <malus.x@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Port for nspluginwrapper Message-ID: <460E7F26.1060901@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY127-DAV16AC440DBB4BDAFA5772A0A3620@phx.gbl> References: <BAY127-DAV16AC440DBB4BDAFA5772A0A3620@phx.gbl>
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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
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