Install and use the cross-browser plug-in framework firebreath-a plug-in Windows

Install and use the cross-browser plug-in framework firebreath-a plug-in Windows

Cheungmine

2012-9

Firebreath is a browser plug-in framework that provides an easy-to-use cross-OS (Windows, Mac, and Linux) and cross-browser (ie, Firefox, chrome ,...) and ActiveX Code framework to automatically generate a solution.

We are generally familiar with the ATL plug-in generation framework under Windows + IE, Which is Microsoft's framework system and provides the most powerful and complete COM/ActiveX programming support under IE. However, with the popularity of other browsers on windows, we often encounter the problem of writing plug-ins across various browsers ). The plug-in system is divided into ActiveX Control School and npapi plug-in school. The former is a Microsoft system, and the latter is a Netscape System (npapi-Netscape plugin Application Programming Interface, is the plug-in standard for most browsers except for IE.

Compiling ActiveX with MFC or ATL is a painful and painful experience, and writing an npapi is a relatively simple process. The following link is the detailed preparation of the npapi provided by mozillia:

Http://mozilla.com.cn/post/21666/

The purpose of this article is to use the simplest example to give a brief introduction to firebreath, so that beginners can compile a cross-browser plug-in on windows within 10 minutes. Is it cool? Of course, there are many such examples on the Internet. I wrote articles for the purpose of taking notes and giving myself a wake up. After all, it is not a good thing to understand too much, and the brain capacity is limited. All right, let's talk nonsense. The development environment you need is:

Windows 7

Cygwin: (optional) This is an essential tool for developing cross-platform software on windows. You must install it.

Python2.7 and later: I installed it in cygwin.

Vs2010

Git

1. Download firebreathC:/nv_workspace/fb.zipIn cygwin, use the command line to download:

$ Ln-ST/usr/SSL/etc/SSL

$ Wget-O/cygdrive/C/nv_workspace/fb.zip https://github.com/firebreath/FireBreath/zipball/firebreath-1.6

-- 12:09:03 -- https://github.com/firebreath/FireBreath/zipball/firebreath-1.6
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 207.97.227.239
Connecting to github.com (github.com) | 207.97.227.239 |: 443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 found
Location: https://nodeload.github.com/firebreath/FireBreath/zipball/firebreath-1.6 [following]
-- 12:09:05 -- https://nodeload.github.com/firebreath/FireBreath/zipball/firebreath-1.6
Resolving nodeload.github.com (nodeload.github.com)... 207.97.227.252
Connecting to nodeload.github.com (nodeload.github.com) | 207.97.227.252 |: 443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1752858 (1.7 m) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: '/cygdrive/C/nv_workspace/fb.zip'

100% [============================================== =======================>] 1,752,858 69.1 K/s in 19 s

12:09:26 (90.2 kb/s)-'/cygdrive/C/nv_workspace/fb.zip 'saved [1752858/1752858]

 

The following operations are performed in Windows:

2. Decompress fb.zip to c: \ nv_workspace \ firebreath-1.6

3. Run cmd as administrator and enter the following command to create the first plug-in Hello:

C: \ nv_workspace \ firebreath-1.6 \Python fbgen. py

Then you will be asked to input a bunch of information in lower case for convenience. As follows:

The Hello plug-in is created. Run the following command to prepare the hello plug-in project of vs2010:

C: \ nv_workspace \ firebreath-1.6 \Prep2010.cmd