[vlc] VLC 0.9 Mozilla plugin

[Frank Bures]

Frank Bures wrote:
> 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
> 

OK, so now I have the plugin file libvlcplugin.so, but Firefox 3.0.1 does
not see it.  I placed it (to be on a sure side) into
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/plugins

but 'about:plugins' in Firefox still has no VLC plugin in it.

And yes, I am running 32-bit version of Firefox on an x86_64 machine (due
to nonexistence of Java for x86_64) so I compiled 32-bit libvlcplugin.so
specifically for this purpose.

What am I doing wrong?

Sorry for bothering you.

Thanks
Frank

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