On Feb 2, 2010, at 04:08, Hans Aberg wrote: On 2 Feb 2010, at 07:42, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>> On Mac OS X (trying it on 10.5.8 PPC G4), guile-1.8.7 cannot open >>> dynamic library files with name extensions .dylib, but only if they >>> are renamed using .so instead. On the Bug-Guile list they say it >>> just calls libltdl, in the libtool package. I have installed latest >>> of both, but the problem persists: >> >> libtool should produce modules named *.so on Darwin if you pass the >> -module flag at link time. Typically, -avoid-version is used for >> modules as well. > > > But dlopen() on Mac OS X can only open files in the native format, which > isn't ELF, and they are typically named with the .dylib file name extension. > If it finds a .so file on ELF format, all it does is reporting it cannot be > opened.
".so" doesn't mean ELF format, and on some systems including Mac OS X, "dynamically linked shared library" (e.g., a ".dylib" file) is not the same as "dynamically loadable object". Did you not see my earlier email to you and the bug-guile list? Ken
