Re: [Htmlvalidator-help] Problem in compiling tidy extension

[Marc G. <mg...@sk...>]

Werner Flamme wrote:
> Marc Gueury schrieb am 31.01.2007 23:42:
>   
>> You make me think about it . I need to upload a new version for Firefox 
>> 2.0 and AMD 64.
>> It is here, http://indexof.co.uk/HtmlValidator-0.7.9.5-x86-64/
>>
>> It was done by Matthew.
>>
>> Marc
>>     
>
>   
Hi Werner,

The extension need to have firefox to load this library with XPCOM. It 
is a kind of list of dynamic libraries.
@mozilla.org/tidy;1 is the name of the library in XPCOM. It seems it is 
not registered or the library can not
be loaded. Have you checked the FAQ about this ?

http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/faq.html point 3

Marc



> Marc, thank you for the link. I downloaded the extension and installed it 
> the usual way. Now I get 
> http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/no_tidy_lib.html on starting: "FATAL 
> ERROR : The dynamic C library  contained in the extension file could not be 
> found."
> ...
> Additional info:
> Symptoms:
>   In the Java console, you will see this error message
> Error: Components.classes['@mozilla.org/tidy;1'] has no properties
> Source File: chrome://tidy/content/tidyUtil.js
> Line: 96
>
> In my extensions/{3b56bcc7-54e5-44a2-9b44-66c3ef58c13e}/components there is 
> a libnstidy.so with SONAME libnstidy.so. What does the extension need? And 
> where does it search?
>
> Werner
>
>