vdhcoapp in package manager (MacPorts clone), using installed dependencies

[RJVB]

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Hi,

I maintain a personal tree of custom ports for (a clone of) the MacPorts package manager that also targets Linux, and I have several reasons making me consider adding a port for vdhcoapp. The main ones:

1. reuse dependencies that are already maintained through that package manager
2. maintain whatever patches required to allow building the application on "legacy" OS versions.

Re 1: looking over build.sh I see nodejs and ffmpeg as dependencies (I have both installed), are there any others?

Re 2: I'm currently supporting down to Mac OS X 10.9 and Ubuntu 14.04 . For the latter simply building locally should suffice, hopefully for the former too though one can never really predict that with the hopeless complexity of nodejs "compilation"...

I welcome any hints and tips on achieving this, esp. concerning files that I'll need to look at. I've already done a few builds against already installed dependencies in the past, the last for vhdcoapp v1.6.x - this required patching multiple files including one that would fetch and build remote sources. It seems that the default build approach is now to fetch a pre-built ffmpeg executable?

Last question: does the current vdhcoapp version work with all versions of the extension?

Addon & CoApp version and details

I'm typing this on a Linux system; on my Mac the VDH extension is at whatever version last worked in Firefox 78.15 .

version: 9.1.0.44
target: mozilla
channel: stable
lang: en-GB
coapp: {"found":true,"path":"/opt/net.downloadhelper.coapp/bin/vdhcoapp","version":"2.0.19","new_version":false}
license: {"unneeded":true}
platform: x86-64 linux
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0
{
"download_directory": "/home/bertin/Downloads",
"never_show_no_incognito_msg_again": true,
"view_options": {
"all_tabs": false,
"low_quality": false,
"sort_by_status": true,
"sort_reverse": false,
"show_button_clean": true,
"show_button_clean_all": false,
"show_button_convert_local": false,
"hide_downloaded": false
},
"default_action": "copy",
"open_count_store": 10
}