Re: [Gnash-dev] Help with building a XPI

[Sylvain Beucler]

> > > So I'd like to experiment with the XPI solution that was mentioned at
> > > gnashdev.org a while ago.  However I don't know at all where to start!
> > > do you have advice or documentation about it?  How did you compile the
> > > latest .xpi?
> > 
> >   "make xpi". :-) it basically builds gnash with all the internal
> > libraries statically linked. Then you do a "make xpi-bundle", and it
> > recompiles the plugin to be dynamically linked (cause it has to), and
> > makes the xpi package. It'll install just fine, but if you have an
> > problems with the XPCOM support not finding the executable in the users
> > profile directory, set "GNASH_PLAYER" so it'll find it.
> 
> Thanks, I'll try that :)
> 
> 
> Hmm, it complains about a missing prerelease directory:
> 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnash-0.8.5/testsuite'
> find gnash-0.8.5 -type d ! -perm -777 -exec chmod a+rwx {} \; -o \
>           ! -type d ! -perm -444 -links 1 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \
>           ! -type d ! -perm -400 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \
>           ! -type d ! -perm -444 -exec /bin/sh 
> /usr/src/gnash-0.8.5/install-sh -c -m a+r {} {} \; \
>         || chmod -R a+r gnash-0.8.5
> mv: cannot stat `gnash-prerelease': No such file or directory
> mv: cannot stat `gnash-prerelease_20090406/configure.ac': No such file or 
> directory
> /bin/sh: line 10: gnash-prerelease_20090406/configure.ac: No such file or 
> directory
> /bin/sh: line 12: cd: gnash-prerelease_20090406: No such file or directory
> Running libtoolize 1.5.26 --force --copy  --ltdl ...
> You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
> ls: cannot access libltdl/*: No such file or directory
> libtoolize: cannot list files in `/usr/share/libtool/libltdl'
> 
> **Error**: libtoolize failed, do you have libtool and libltdl3-dev packages 
> installed?
> tar: gnash-prerelease_20090406: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> ...
> 
> How is it meant to be used?

One of the issues was that Gnash requires libtool 2.x.

However it still mentions missing pre-release directories but I don't
know where they come from :/

-- 
Sylvain