[RFC] Port for nspluginwrapper

Dave Grochowski malus.x at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 22:44:40 UTC 2007


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.

Sincerely,
Dave Grochowski



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