Re: [Gnash] Re: gnash only creates blank standalone window.....

[Rob Savoye]

Jonas Wolz wrote:
> I can confirm that: I also got the gnash CVS version compiled on FreeBSD (by
> manually setting CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to include gtkglext, SDL, ...) and the
> standalone player works just fine, but the plugin doesn't show up in
> about:plugins. The only thing that happens  when I go to about:plugins is
> that gnash-dbg.log gets created (with 0 bytes size).
>
> The same source code works when copied over to a Linux installation and
> compiled/installed there.

  Sigh... This is a little difficult to debug remotely since I don't 
have access to a FreeBSD machine. (and it failed to install under Qemu).
Guess it's time to dig an old PC out of the shed and try an install on a 
screaming 133Mhz box...  My guess is there is a subtle problem with 
graphics libraries. With a Gtk2 build of Firefox, you want to get the 
gtk-x11-2.0 libraries, I had a similar problem once where I was getting 
the 1.0 libraries at runtime, and got a blank screen.

  I need to fix the zero sized gnash-dbg.log. You get that now by 
default, but since nothing it written without the "-w" option, it's 
always empty. Writing to the file is a performance hit, so for now it's 
optional.

        - rob -