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18 -- may be out of date but will be worth reading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