Google O3D plugin on Linux AMD64

Couldn't sleep, so I tried the new O3D plugin from Google for Ubuntu AMD64 (from the PPAs on Launchpad), didn't work. Ended up building it from source... lots of snags, like 3 new build tools from Google (why can't they just use pre-existing tools).

I am using Chromium on Ubuntu, installed from the PPAs on Launchpad.

Here are the steps I used to build O3D on my 64-bit Linux:

 sudo apt-get install devscripts libglu1-mesa-dev cdbs libgtk2.0-dev libgconf2-dev
 tar -xvf depot_tools.tar.gz
 export PATH="$HOME/depot_tools:$PATH"
 mkdir o3d_chromium_src; cd o3d_chromium_src
 gclient config http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/o3d
 gclient sync
 export GYP_DEFINES="target_arch=x64"
 gclient runhooks --force
 cd o3d/build/
 hammer -f o3d_main.scons
 cd sconsbuild/Debug/
 sudo cp libnpo3dautoplugin.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/
 sudo cp lib* /usr/lib/chromium-browser/

Played Infinite Journey at http://blog.largeanimal.com/demo/

It was cute, looked great, and showed that 3d games in the browser are coming.

No luck with 3d acceleration though, all the games run quite slow, but it looks interesting.

A Good Start

Most things (like Linux) need setup or are missing some simple piece (Batteries not included). I decided to start a blog about Linux, GP2X and other fun tech and the missing steps.