Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:36:55 -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: <460F28D7.6070607@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY127-DAV14E4DB1C8EF977629562E9A3620@phx.gbl> References: <BAY127-DAV16AC440DBB4BDAFA5772A0A3620@phx.gbl> <460E7F26.1060901@freebsd.org> <BAY127-DAV14E4DB1C8EF977629562E9A3620@phx.gbl>
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On 03/31/07 17:44, Dave Grochowski wrote: > 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. Oh. Yes, that makes it work better. Thanks! One thing to mention - it creates core dumps each time I access flash media. I've got flash9 installed, and most flash play until the end, then core dump (segfault sig 11). A few core dump in the middle. I have a core dump, but have not attempted to compile the port with debugging installed yet. npviewer.bin seems to be the core file creator. Eric
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