Bundling plugins with Browse

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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.
>


How do I do the strace for activity startup ? In an XO, it's pretty
easy to do via rainbow, but how do I do this in sugar-jhbuild ?
There's a MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH which looks promising, but somehow it's not
working for me. Strace should be able provide clues.

Thanks,
Sayamindu



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