[SOLVED] compile and install runtime on saucy

Compiling or Editing the Panda Source
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Hi, i’ve try to get the runtime running on my ubuntu 13.10, but get some errors while compiling :

-> direct/src/plugin/p3dAuthSession.cxx:445:22: error: ‘fork’ was not declared in this scope .
Error was on fork, also chdir, unlink etc , so i add

#include <unistd.h>

to direct/src/plugin/p3d_plugin_composite1.cxx, direct/src/plugin/mkdir_complete.cxx and direct/src/plugin/handleStreamBuf.cxx

-> direct/src/plugin_npapi/startup.h:32:35: error: declaration of C function ‘char* NP_GetMIMEDescription()’ conflicts with char* NP_GetMIMEDescription(void);.
For this i have comment all concerning NP_GetMIMEDescription in direct/src/plugin_npapi/startup.h and direct/src/plugin_npapi/startup.cxx ( found in /usr/include/firefox )

-> /usr/include/firefox/npruntime.h:140:30: error: ‘nullptr’ was not declared in this scope.
i replace nullptr by NULL in /usr/include/firefox/npruntime.h ( also i unfortunally tried to use g++4.7 instead of 4.8 and to add CFLAGS="-std=c++11" in makepanda.py )

After that i was able to compile runtime, the command panda3d is working well.
Then i linked (ln -s) built/bin/panda3d to /usr/bin/panda3d, and built/plugins/nppanda3d.so to /usr/lib/nppanda3d.so, /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppanda3d.so and /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/nppanda3d.so , but firefox can not find the plugin .

First i apologise as i know it’s not a good idea to edit sources, but don’t know what to do …
And the question is “Was it a bad idea to modifie sources, and is that why it’s not working with FF ?”

Thanks for your attention

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Most of those changes look fine, but you should not have commented out NP_GetMIMEDescription. Instead, you should have changed the definition to match what it complained with. I think there may be a “const” missing in the definition.

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Lot of thanks, i’ve just replace char* NP_GetMIMEDescription by const char* NP_GetMIMEDescription in startup.h and startup.cxx , and now everything works perfectly fine.

Thanks again