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# Linux Plugins
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## Background reading materials
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### Plugins in general
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* [Gecko Plugin API reference](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Guide)
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-- most important to read
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* [Mozilla plugins site](http://www.mozilla.org/projects/plugins/)
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* [XEmbed extension](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XEmbed_Extension_for_Mozilla_Plugins)
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-- newer X11-specific plugin API
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* [NPAPI plugin guide](http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/gplflash2_blog/npapi.html)
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from GPLFlash project
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### Chromium-specific
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* [Chromium's plugin architecture](https://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/plugin-architecture)
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-- may be out of date but will be worth reading
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## Code to reference
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* [Mozilla plugin code](http://mxr.mozilla.org/firefox/source/modules/plugin/base/src/)
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-- useful reference
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* [nspluginwrapper](http://gwenole.beauchesne.info//en/projects/nspluginwrapper)
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-- does out-of-process plugins itself
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## Terminology
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* _Internal plugin_: "a plugin that's implemented in the chrome dll, i.e.
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there's no external dll that services that mime type. For Linux you'll just
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have to worry about the default plugin, which is what shows a puzzle icon
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for content that you don't have a plugin for. We use that to allow the user
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to download and install the missing plugin."
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## Flash
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* [Adobe Flash player dev center](http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/)
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* [penguin.swf](http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/) -- blog about Flash on
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Linux
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* [tips and tricks](http://macromedia.mplug.org/) -- user-created page, with
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some documentation of special flags in `/etc/adobe/mms.cfg`
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* [official Adobe bug tracker](https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/)
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## Useful Tools
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* `xwininfo -tree` -- lets you inspect the window hierarchy of a window and
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get the layout of child windows.
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* "[DiamondX](http://multimedia.cx/diamondx/) is a simple NPAPI plugin built
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to run on Unix platforms and exercise the XEmbed browser extension."
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* To build a 32-bit binary:
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`./configure CFLAGS='-m32' LDFLAGS='-L/usr/lib32 -m32'`
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