[osflash] Stop being Windows-oriented!

Evert | Rooftop evert at rooftopsolutions.nl
Wed Jan 16 08:52:36 PST 2008


Infos E-Blokos wrote:
> Mac is only a Unix like platform,
> so it should not to be very complicated to compile for linux...
>
>   
Thats far from the truth though.. This would be the case if these 
applications only relied on the common posix/glibc/whatever libraries 
that are on any unix-like system..

However, things like, integrating with the window manager, are all 
really os-specific. OS/X and windows are a lot easier there because you 
can perfectly rely on certain libraries being always there, whereas with 
linux.. you never know what you can expect..

I read about similar issues porting the flashplayer.. loads of problems 
because they didn't know which sound driver would be installed, which 
window manager, etc etc..

Evert



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