The software that I am writing is to be distributed free to
non-technical people. Therefore, I need to prepare packages that do not
require technical expertise to use. The product I wish to replace )and
whose capabilities I wish to extend) is a Windows only product (because
it was written in Visual Basic). The VB product can be seen at
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I am satisfied that my software will run on my 32-bit Fedora Core 6. I
can test it there. My intent is that the software should be able to be
run on as many platforms as possible. Because I don’t know exactly what
is going on behind the scenes with gtkmozembed, I must guess what I need
to do to make it run on my 64 bit platform as just one of the platforms
I wish to test on. Then, I need to extend that knowledge to other
platforms, such as Mac and Windows.
I am only now coming to the conclusion that the compile of gtkmozembed
in this Ruby-gnome environment requires only one of
xulrunner-gtkmozembed.pc, firefox-gtkmozembed.pc or
mozilla-gtkmozembed.pc. Can this be confirmed or denied?
I started out by thinking that I had to have xulrunner-gtkmozembed.pc
and firefox-gtkmozembed.pc. It did strike me as illogical that I needed
both firefox-gtkmozembed.pc and mozilla-gtkmozembed.pc. Because I don’t
know what these do, I could be wrong about that.
I followed the instructions on Mozilla’s site for xulrunner and
installed it on /opt/xulrunner. The file I downloaded had “686” in the
name, so I supposed that it was the 64 bit version. At any rate, I had
no options. After unpacking it, I ran “xulrunner --register-global”. I
then found a copy of xulrunner-gtkmozembed.pc in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
where I also have a copy of firefox-gtkmozembed.pc. (I have a directory
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig, but there’s no copy of either of these files
there.) Therefore, I guess that xulrunner, even though it is a 64 bit
version, produced a 32 bit xulrunner-gtkmozembed.pc.
I changed to ~/Software/ruby-gnome2-all-0.16.0/gtkmozembed/sample/ and
ran “ruby ruby-gecko.rb”. I got the message
./gtkmozembed.rb:2:in require': no such file to load -- gtkmozembed.so (LoadError) from ./gtkmozembed.rb:2 from ruby-gecko.rb:33:in require’
from ruby-gecko.rb:33
I found myself in possession of gtkmozembed.so in
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux/ as well as one in
/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/. To make certain that I’d
know that I was gaining access to the right one, I copied both
gtkmozembed.rb and /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux/gtkmozembed.so
into ~/Software/ruby-gnome2-all-0.16.0/gtkmozembed/sample/ and ran “ruby
ruby-gecko.rb” again. I got the error message:
./gtkmozembed.so: ./gtkmozembed.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 -
./gtkmozembed.so (LoadError)
from ./gtkmozembed.rb:2
from ruby-gecko.rb:33:in `require’
from ruby-gecko.rb:33
which is what I’d expect if ruby is 64 bit and gtkmozembed.so is 32
bit. Because I didn’t get a 64 bit version of gtkmozembed.so from
firefox, I got “smart” and copied the one from
/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/. This time, I got the
message
./gtkmozembed.so: ./gtkmozembed.so: undefined symbol: PyExc_ImportError
- ./gtkmozembed.so (LoadError)
from ./gtkmozembed.rb:2
from ruby-gecko.rb:33:in `require’
from ruby-gecko.rb:33
Obviously, the file from Python isn’t going to work. I don’t know what
to do from here. The firefox-devel package from Red Hat is only in the
i386 version. I suppose that I can try to find one in the 64 bit
version, but, if I don’t get it from Red Hat, what I find might mess up
some other part of my system.
Has anyone a suggestion as to how I can distribute this software as
multi-platform, even if I offer a package for each of several platforms?
Thanks,
Alan
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