[wplug] mozilla firefox and realplayer plugin
Brandon Kuczenski
brandon at 301south.net
Tue Jul 6 19:48:11 EDT 2004
> Hello,
>
> I have mozilla firefox installed at
> /opt/firefox-installer. I have a softlink to the
> firefox executable at /usr/bin. It works great except
> the fact that it do not load any realplayer plugin.
> Mozilla works perfect and also the konquerror. But I
> can not have streaming audio in firefox.
>
> I get an error message like
>
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> /usr/lib/browser-plugins/rpnp.so
> [/usr/lib/browser-plugins/rpnp.so: undefined symbol:
> __pure_virtual]
>
> Can any one suggest a way out.
>
>From http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html :
"The RealPlayer plugin does not work with versions of Mozilla compiled
with gcc 3.x. Bug 213234 has an unsupported workaround."
I haven't tried the workaround, because I don't know exactly what it
does, and the poster seems to think it's dangerous:
"A obvious hack (i've posted to other mozilla bugs) to get around this
problem is so:
Find an libgcc.a from a gcc-2.95.x compiler, and then
% ld -shared -o rpnphack.so \
/full/path/to/RealPlayer/rpnp.so \
/some/path/to/an/old/libgcc.a
and then use rpnphack.so in your plugin directory.
I do not condone this method, but it doeswork."
I don't know if this is at issue for you or not. Frankly, I don't even
know if it's at issue for *me*. But I couldn't get realplayer to work
either as a plugin.
-Brandon
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