Re: [Gnash] portability update

[Rob Savoye]

Richard Brooklyn wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 18:21 -0700, Rob Savoye wrote:

> Great work. I can now finally compile gnash on my amd64-linux platform.
> Firefox doesn't 'see' the gnash plugin, even after restarting it, but I
> understand that the plugin is under heavy development right now.

  If Firefox doesn't see the plugin, it's usually a matter of undefined 
libraries. The plugin won't be build it you don't have the Mozilla or 
Firefox development packages install. The only way I know to see what is 
wrong with the plugin loading is to build Firefox from source with 
debugging enabled. That way yo9u get all the messages about what went wrong.

  Something else I discovered the other day, the plugin doesn't load if 
you put it in your home directory .firefox/plugins or .mozilla/plugins 
directory. The plugin won't load from there. It appears to only load 
correctly (due to GTK issues) when installed in the main plugin directory.

> I can use the gnash standalone player to play a couple of flash movies
> such as the one from www.badgerbadgerbadger.com, the quality of the

  Glad to hear it actually works on a 64 bit system now. Once the 
plugin works, there will be a lot more focus on things like the 
performance, the appearance of the graphics, etc... At this point I'm 
just trying to get the plugin to work before fixing all the other stuff 
that will improve both the plugin and the standalone player.

        - rob -