Hi Ralf, I don't have any fresh ideas for solving the path issue, save perhaps for installing the OSG in standard paths.
The alternative to playing with paths is to try a static build of the OSG and your plugin. Robert. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Ralph Kern <usene...@rk-se.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > the LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue for the linux plugin is still annoying. > > I tried to use a proxy shared lib, which sets up an appriopriate path > using setenv() and then calls dlopen() on the plugin lib. > > But it fails because LD_LIBRARY_PATH is only evaluated once during > startup of the firefox program. It cannot be manipulated later. > > any more ideas? > > regards Ralph > > Ralph Kern schrieb: >> Hi Andreas, >> >> I'm making some progress in the linux port. I already can see the models >> on your page, but only if I start firefox with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to >> the plugin directory. >> >> Now I need to search for some hack to port your library search path >> extensions to linux. This is not easy, because the plugin is not lazily >> loaded like in Windows. And there's no SetDllDirectory like in Windows. >> >> So I need to find a way to patch the search path before the FF plugin is >> loaded, otherwise the load fails because it cannot locate libosgdb.so >> and libosgViewer.so. >> >> I think the right path is to have a proxy plugin, which manipulates the >> path and then loads the correct plugin using dlopen(). >> >> If someone knows a better way, let me know! >> >> Regards Ralph >> >> >> >> Andreas Goebel schrieb: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have changed a little bit in the xpi and in the plugin itself. It now >>> not only adds the plugin-directory to the osg-file-path, but to the >>> windows-dll-search-path. This worked at least on my machine to enable >>> .ive-support without having the osg-libs in your path. >>> >>> Please: Those people who didn´t see the lower three models, uninstall >>> the old plugin, install the new one and try. Note that that function >>> (named SetDllDirectory ) is only available from WinXP SP1 onwards, so >>> this plugin won´t work with older windows versions. I think that only >>> very few people are using older windows now. >>> >>> Hope this works ... >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Andreas >>> _______________________________________________ >>> osg-users mailing list >>> osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org >>> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> osg-users mailing list >> osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org >> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
