[vlc] VLC 0.9 Mozilla plugin

[Frank Bures]

Frank Bures wrote:
> Jean-Paul Saman wrote:
>> Frank Bures wrote:
>>> anthony loiseau wrote:
>>>> The mozilla-plugin file is named "libvlcplugin.so" for linux.
>>>>
>>>> If you compile VLC yourself, be aware that default prefix is /usr/local
>>>> so the plugin can be installed in /usr/local/lib/mozilla/plugins for
>>>> example. In this case, you will have to copy it (or symlink)
>>>> to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins for your web browser to find it.
>>>>
>>>> _anthony
>>> I compiled VLC 0.9 on two different RHEL5 machines, one x86 and one x86_64.
>>> I did not specify any special configure parameters, but compilation of VLC
>>> plugin for Mozilla should be enabled by default (according to configure
>>> --help).
>>>
>>> I have no file libvlcplugin.so anywhere on any of those two systems.
>>>
>>> Are there any special parameters one has to enable during configure to get
>>> the plugin to compile?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Frank
>>>
>> You need to add --without-mozilla-sdk-path too.
> 
> Do I need to have any special mozilla rpm packages installed?  Currently I
> only have firefox-3.0.1 installed.
> 
> Thanks
> Frank
> 

Problem solved.  It was caused by missing x86_64 packages.  For some reason
'yum install' installed only i386 versions of firefox development libraries.

For the records, configure command that worked for me was:
./configure --enable-mozilla --without-mozilla-sdk-path

However, libvlcplugin.so was not automatically installed anywhere.
It resides in /usr/local/src/vlc-0.9.2/projects/mozilla/.libs/libvlcplugin.so

Cheers
Frank

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