[Perlplusplugin-developers] Re: ppl-plug-0.95

[Slaven R. <re...@on...>]

> On Aug 25, 11:52am, Dmitry Karasik wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I found your package,  ppl-plug-0.95, and I'm trying to adjust it to my
> > own needs...
> > I couldn't say that 'make' was flawless, the INCLUDE string somewhy
> > didn't point
> > to /usr/X11R6, but that's minor things. After 'make install'
> > I got stumbled in the first steps - my Netscape says:
> > 
> > --------
> > ERROR: bad magic number in
> > "/home/dk/.netscape/plugins/perlplusplugin.so"
> > Cant load plugin /home/dk/.netscape/plugins/perlplusplugin.so. Ignored.
> > ---------
> > 
> > I didn't find anything similar into the documentation, and I didn't find
> > anything on the web.
> > The Netscape is 4.73, running on freebsd-4.1-stable. That is strange,
> > because
> > I even tried things on win32, and everything worked fine. I'm not
> > experienced in writing
> > netscape plugins, so I'm clueless about 'magic number' - whether it's
> > something internal or
> > related to system-dependent executable format.
> > 

Just a guess: FreeBSD's netscape is still a.out, while FreeBSD
switched to ELF since 3.0. So it might help if you're adding an -aout
switch (or something like that) to the compiler option. Probably you
also need some a.out development kit from the ports.

Another way would be to use linux-netscape and the linux-devel port to
compile the plugin.

Please let me know if you have success ... it's long time ago
(somewhere in the FreeBSD 2.2.8 times) I tried the perl/Tk plugin for
Netscape.

Regards,
	Slaven

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