[vlc-devel] Re: VLC checking for external plugins when built with --disable-plugins

[Damien Fouilleul]

Gildas Bazin wrote:

>On Monday 14 March 2005 17:45, Damien Fouilleul wrote:
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>>when compiling VLC to use built-in modules, i've noticed that it still 
>>scans for external plugins. is there a way to disable this behaviour 
>>through configure ?
>>
>>it seems that a #define called HAVE_DYNAMIC_PLUGINS controls this 
>>scanning, and is always defined  if dynamic linking  is  possible on the 
>>target platform. I am proposing to have this #define turned off if 
>>--disable-plugins is configured.
>>
>>some background: I've had requests about distributing a 
>>stand-alone/self-contained version of the activeX plugin, unfortunately 
>>if VLC is already installed, then there are problems regarding version 
>>mismatch between libvlc  in the activex plugin and  the version  of VLC 
>>already installed.
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>There won't be mismatch problems if your version of VLC (or the activex 
>plugin) has a different version number/name than the installed plugins.
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ok, that sound better than I thought, that's a good argument to keep the 
code as it is, I suppose if one only install released version of the 
plugin/VLC then there shouldn't be a problem

>Even though it could make sense to disable the plugins loading code when 
>--disable-plugins is specified, it could also be annoying if you want to 
>build a self-contained but minimal version of VLC and you want this version 
>to make use of the full version's plugins if they are available.
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in my humble opinion, --disable-plugins means don't compile anything 
regarding external plugins, maybe we should add a configure flag called 
'--without-plugins' to differentiate b/w a build that doesn't contain 
the plugin mechanism, and a build that has the mechanism but does not 
provide any plugins

>Anyway, do as you wish, I don't really feel strongly either way.
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>--
>Gildas
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