Re: [Gtk2hs-users] GtkMozEmbed

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Duncan Coutts <dun...@wo...> wrote:
 > 
 > > Would the maintainers then be willing to make this
 > > a part of the default distribution?
 > 
 > If we can make it work, I'd say so.

Thanks!

 > > Is it easy for somebody familiar with the autoconf and make setup
 > > of gtk2hs to integrate this into gtk2hs?
 > 
 > >From your description it doesn't look too hard. We'll help you out with
 > this. Could you describe in more detail the dependencies, eg on
 > gtkmozembed & on mozilla and/or firefox?
 > ie what will the configure scrip need to look for?
 > what were the issues with header files & libs?

It needs the .h file, looked for via

#include<mozilla/gtkembedmoz/gtkmozembed.h>

, and found in my case via

lrwxrwxrwx  1  24 Sep 19 20:28 /usr/include/mozilla -> /usr/lib/mozilla/include

(The gtkmozembed.h inside the firefox source is identical.)

Then it needs the shared library libgtkembedmoz.so, of which I have two:

/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/libgtkembedmoz.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/libgtkembedmoz.so


By the way, all applications need to do:

  mozEmbedSetCompPath "/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox" -- or wherever..

, so this would be a nice application of module initialisation.
(Possibly the link error I mentioned was due to mismatch between .so and
components directory.)

Now that I think more about it I would tend to integrate a call to this
with configure-produced path into mozEmbedNew,
and not export mozEmbedSetCompPath at all.


So my proposed strategy for configure would be:

* find the first .h file

* find the first (Firefox before mozilla) .so file and components directory

* allow user override for both.



Also, I forgot to include a link to the home page of gtkembedmoz:

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/gtk-embedding.html


 > 
 > I know nothing of MacOS but I believe gtk2hs works there...

I tried it when I had darwinports (machine since reinstalled),
and it compiled without problems, but I have no idea how things
like shared libraries work there, and was getting nowhere with my
manual installation.



Cheers,

Wolfram