Linking external libraries in PPAPI plugin

Question

First of all am new to PPAPI plugin development. Earlier i have been using NPAPI plugin to perform certain functionality which in turn uses windows APIs.Now since NPAPI is obsolete, i am trying PPAPI. My question is can i link windows APIs to PPAPI? Is it possible ?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 14 '13 at 23:25

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It is not possible to call Windows functions. If it were, then it would be trivial to escape the NaCl security sandbox.

answered Nov 14 '13 at 23:25

Bennet Yee

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Not even DLL calls are permitted ? – Buzz LIghtyear Nov 15 '13 at 06:52
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If you could call anything that was in a DLL, then it wouldn't be much of a sandbox. PPAPI is not just NPAPI with a different name; by design, you can't make arbitrary calls from it. – smorgan Nov 15 '13 at 18:42

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '13 at 16:45

As Bennet mentioned, it is not possible to make calls to the Windows API. If this is necessary for your application, try making a Chrome Extension and using Native Messaging instead.

From the link:

Extensions can exchange messages with native applications. Native applications that support this feature must register a native messaging host that knows how to communicate with the extension. Chrome starts the host in a separate process and communicates with it using standard input and standard output streams.

Linking external libraries in PPAPI plugin

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