[vlc-devel] "approved" method for locating plugins dir

[Nick Briggs]

On May 23, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:

> 	Hello,
> 
> Le lundi 23 mai 2011 23:12:43 Nick Briggs, vous avez écrit :
>> Is there an approved method for locating where plugins should be installed
>> from a standalone compilation/installation of a VLC module?
> 
> Hmm no, I'm afraid I did not think about that.
> 
>> I'm trying to maintain an access module (for CCNx, http://www.ccnx.org)
>> that is compatible with most versions of VLC,
> 
> Binary compatibility is explicitly broken at every x.y.0 release. I guess 
> you're using quite a pile of ifdefs. Then again, some plugin classes are more 
> stable than others.
> 

Fortunately, I only have to worry about source compatibility :-)

It's an "access" module, and so far, since 0.9.8 I've had to deal with:
	- access seek method changed from int64_t to uint64_t
	- info.b_prebuffered went away
	- p_access->psz_path => p_access->p_location
	- vlc_thread_create lost its last parameter (<= 0.9.9) but was then deprecated, and now un-exported (with other vlc_thread_xxx fns)
	- access control ACCESS_GET_MTU went away
	- vlc_savecancel/vlc_restorecancel introduced
	- block_FifoPace was introduced but not exported prior to 1.1.0
which isn't too bad in the scheme of things.

>> but about March 2010 plugins
>> moved from $(vlclibdir)/modules to $(vlclibdir)/plugins, and there doesn't
>> seem to be a pkg-config value that reflects this.
> 
> I can add a pkg variable, but as far as backward compatibility is concerned, 
> you're going to have to hardcode $(libdir)/vlc/module for VLC < 1.1 and 
> $(libdir)/vlc/plugins for VLC >= 1.1.0.
> 

A okg variable would be perfect -- thanks!  I currently have a hardcoded version check to drive the location but was concerned that I'd missed something.

> -- 
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
> http://www.remlab.net/
> http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis

-- Nick Briggs
PARC
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