[vlc-devel] Re: compiling mozilla (firefox) plugin for VLC under win32 cygwin env

[Aaron Lee]

I finally got mozilla plugin working and built on cygwin Win32 platform. 

Step 1:
download gecko for cygwin sdk and a few other libraries

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.6/gecko-sdk-i586-pc-cygwin-1.7.6.zip
and then
extract libIDL-0.6.dll from libIDL-0.6.3-win32-bin.zip and put it into
C:\gecko-sdk\bin
extract glib-1.2.dll from vc71-glib-1.2.10-bin.zip and put it into
C:\gecko-sdk\bin
The two DLLs can be downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/

Step 2:
Modify configure.ac to remove -lembedstring because we don't need it

Step 3.
The configure.ac has some hard wired path to XPIDL and XPIDL_INCL so I
instead modify the mozilla's Makefile for a one-time hack. I did try
export the two variables before running configure but didn't work.

XPIDL = /cygdrive/d/gecko-sdk/bin/xpidl.exe
XPIDL_INCL = -I"c:\gecko-sdk/idl" 

Step 4.
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/win32/include -I/usr/win32/include/ebml
-I/cygdrive/d/gecko-sdk/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/win32/lib -L/cygdrive/d/gecko-sdk/lib"

Step 5. 
Add --enable-mozilla --with-mozilla-sdk-path=/cygdrive/c/gecko-sdk to
your configure params.

-Aaron

On 4/25/05, Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman at planet.nl> wrote:
> Aaron Lee wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I just did a svn update and got the latest source of VLC and is about
> >to get the mozilla plugin compiled. I saw some earlier posts regarding
> >getting the mozilla devel 1.7.6.
> >
> >export XPIDL=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.6/xpidl
> >export XPIDL_INCL=-I/usr/share/idl/mozilla-1.7.6/
> >
> > Are those instructions the same for Cygwin platform? If so where can
> >I get the mozilla-1.7.6 package? Thanks'
> >
> >
> The version should match the mozilla version YOU want to build against.
> How that works under Cygwin, I do not know.
> 
> If you find out,  then please write a small explanation and sent it to
> me. I will update the mozilla plugin compile guide on
> developers.videolan.org/vlc with that information.
> 
> Greetings,
> Jean-Pal Saman.
> 
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