Re: [openvrml-develop] compiling on ubuntu

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 22:09 +0200, Richard Ulrich wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:26:09 -0400
> > From: Braden McDaniel <br...@en...>
> > Subject: Re: [openvrml-develop] compiling on ubuntu
> > To: ope...@li...
> > Message-ID: <4A8...@en...>
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> > On 8/19/09 8:57 AM, Richard Ulrich wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I tried to compile openvrml on ubuntu 9.04 today.
> > > Most of the errors from running the configure script I could resolve
> > > myself. But I couldn't figure out what to do about this one:
> > >
> > > configure:21401: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "mozilla-plugin>=
> > > 1.9.1"
> > > Package mozilla-plugin was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `mozilla-plugin.pc'
> > > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > > No package 'mozilla-plugin' found
> > >
> > > There is no mozilla-plugin package in the ubuntu repositories, and I
> > > couldn't figure out which one to use instead.
> > 
> > On Fedora this is included in the xulrunner-devel package; Ubuntu should 
> > have something similar.
> > 
> 
> Hi Braden,
> 
> thanks for the info, that got me one step further.
> The default version of xulrunner on ubuntu 9.04 is 1.9.0, although there
> is a package for version 1.9.1 which I installed now.
> But now I get an error that I need spidermonkey.
> Trying to install the spidermonkey package tells me that it has to
> remove xulrunner 1.9.1.

SpiderMonkey is included with XULRunner; if the package on Ubuntu that
provides XULRunner development headers does not also include the
mozilla-js.pc file for pkg-config, it sounds like the Ubuntu package is
broken.

SpiderMonkey is also found packaged by itself; in this incarnation, the
library name is normally "libjs".  (The version included with XULRunner
is named "libmozjs".)  If you want to use this stand-alone SpiderMonkey
with OpenVRML, pass "--with-libjs" to configure.

> So, I have the impression, that It's not possible to build openvrml on
> ubuntu 9.04 with the libraries from the repositories.
> Could this be correct, or did somebody succeed?

I'm not familiar with Ubuntu.  Having the package that provides libjs
conflict with XULRunner would be an implementation choice that
particular distribution has made.  But it's not clear to me why the
SpiderMonkey that gets provided with XULRunner (that is, libmozjs) isn't
usable.

-- 
Braden McDaniel <br...@en...>