Bundling plugins with Browse

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> We are trying to figure out a way to bundle the mozplugger plugin[1]
>>> in Browse, so that PDF files can be viewed from within Browse itself.
>>> Does anyone know how this can be done. Apart from the mozplugger
>>> plugin itself, we need to have the m4 binary to help mozplugger parse
>>> its config file, as well as the application which _actually_ renders
>>> the PDF.
>>> Normally we can modify the OS image, but it would be easier for us to
>>> include the entire thing in Browse and make a new Browse bundle.
>>> Any thoughts/ideas/comments ?
>>
>> What are the binaries, libraries and other resources that are needed
>> by the evince plugin and aren't available on the 8.2.0 image?
>>
>
>
> We won't use the evince plugin (as it does not have Journal support).
> I have a simple python PDF viewer which takes care of rendering the
> PDF. Everything that needs to be installed on the XO are at:
> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pdf_embed/

I haven't done these tricks myself, but I know that some activities
ship executables and libraries inside their bundles.

Two places to look at are modifying PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
insert in them paths inside the bundle.

Also, you can set some mozilla-related paths at startup, see hulahop.startup().

Would this be enough?

strace -e open may be helpful in seeing which files it looks for and
fails to find.

HTH,

Tomeu