RE: [Chromium-dev] Does mural.conf work?

[Greg H. <humper@Graphics.Stanford.EDU>]

You guys should look at the "Debugging a SPU" section of the documentation,
which has some techniques for doing this.  symlinks are fine, and have the
advantage that you don't end up blowing a whole day because you've been
debugging yesterday's build by mistake :)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: chr...@li...
> [mailto:chr...@li...]On Behalf Of Sean Ahern
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 3:33 PM
> To: Brian Paul
> Cc: chromium-dev
> Subject: Re: [Chromium-dev] Does mural.conf work?
>
>
> Brian Paul wrote:
> > OK.  I'm at least happy that I'm not the only one having trouble.
> > Perhaps Greg can shed more light on this when he's back on-line.
>
> That's what I'm hoping.  I'm also hoping that maybe it was the nVidia
> drivers on my Linux box that are causing the problem.  I had hoped to try
> this on an SGI today to see, but I'm busy working on other things.
>
> > > You may be able to more easily debug this by bypassing
> crappfaker.  For
> > > WireGL, at least, I was able to set up my environment variables
> > > (LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc.) so that I could just run "atlantis"
> (or whatever)
> > > manually and have WireGL kick in.  Chromium should be able to
> do the same
> > > thing.  That way you can get at it with a debugger.
>
> Just to prove to myself that I can do this in Chromium, I gave it a shot.
> It's a bit more complicated than it was in WireGL.  Here are the steps
> (UNIX-centric):
>
> 1) Head into cr/lib/<os>.  You will find a library called
> "libcrfaker.so".
>    This is the library that has the entry points for Chromium.
> You need to
>    copy this to a temporary space.  Make a temporary directory
> (here called
>    "/var/tmp/fake").  Do "cp libcrfaker.so /var/tmp/fake/libGL.so"
>
> 2) You need to reproduce the OpenGL library file structure of your OS.  Do
>    "ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.*".  You should get something like:
>
>         /usr/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1.0.1251
>         /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.0.1251
>         /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.1251
>
>    Reproduce the file structure:
>
>     % cd /var/tmp/fake
>     % ln -s libGL.so libGL.so.1
>     % ln -s libGL.so libGL.so.1.0.1251
>
> 3) Set up some environment variables.  First, LD_LIBRARY_PATH (customise
>    for your shell):
>
>     % typeset LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/tmp/fake:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>    Chromium also needs an application ID:
>
>     % typeset CR_APPLICATION_ID_NUMBER=0
>
> 4) You're done.  Run whatever OpenGL application you want and it will get
>    intercepted by Chromium:
>
>     % fonttest
>
>
> WARNING:  I crashed XFree86 a couple times while trying to perfect this.
> YMMV.
>
> If anyone knows/finds a better way to do this, please chime in.
>
> -Sean
>
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