[Slackbuilds-users] gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.x won't build

[Phillip Warner]

--- On Fri, 5/27/11, Ozan Türkyılmaz <ozan.turkyilmaz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't seem to get gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.0 or 1.0.3 to build on stock
> Slackware64 13.37.  A fix I saw on linuxquestions.org 
> recommended installing
> xulrunner to fix this compile error:
>
> /usr/include/seamonkey-2.1b3/plugin/nscore.h:50:32:
> fatal error:
> mozilla/mozalloc.h: No such file or directory

It's a lot easier to just install the 13.1 version of seamonkey (which has all the header files) instead.

> So now
> firefox and gnome-mplayer-1.0.0 (gnome-mplayer-1.0.3
> still complains about a
> missing schema), but the mozalloc.h error is back for
> gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.0.
>
> So what's the scoop?
>

The schema problem is easily resolved.  An excerpt from the current doinst.sh file:

if [ -x /usr/bin/glib-compile-schemas ]; then
  /usr/bin/glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

As was mentioned previously we are in a waiting status right now.  One, we need the proper seamonkey headers.  Two, the current versions of gecko and gnome-mplayer still need some work before they work properly in FF4/Chrome 11.  I might switch to SVN in the meantime.  My current slackBuild is still tracking to the latest release.  I haven't had time to check on this in the last couple of weeks, however.

--phillip