Hi Frank, thanks for the information. If you always use /usr/local/lib then what do you do when you need to run two different independent applications which have different requirements?
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Frank Goenninger <f...@me.com> wrote: > Am 20.09.2016 um 15:32 schrieb Luís Oliveira <luis...@gmail.com>: > > > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Jim Newton <jimka.i...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> CL-USER> (cffi::list-foreign-libraries) > >> (... > >> #<CFFI:FOREIGN-LIBRARY > >> :LIBCAIRO #P"/usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.12.16_1/lib/libcairo.dylib" > (truename=#P"/usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.12.16_1/lib/libcairo.2.dylib")>) > >> CL-USER> > >> > >> However, when I attempt to load libgdk-x11-2.0.0.dylib it complains > that it cannot find a particular symbol in /usr/local/lib/libcairo.dylib. > Why is it complaining about /usr/local/lib/libcairo.dylib? > > > > Most of those dylibs are symlinks and libgdk may depend on a name > > which exists in /usr/local/lib but not /usr/local/Cellar, maybe? ldd > > can tell you what a given dylib depends on. > > As Jim is on macOS there is no ldd. The command to use is > > otool -L /usr/local/lib//libcairo.dylib > > Seeing that Jim uses homebrew to install Cairo it is worth mentioning that > brew install … also generates (normally) an entry in /usr/local/lib . That > is why I always stick to using /usr/local/lib/libxyz.dylib paths when I > want to ensure a particular library to be loaded. > > Best, > Frank > > > >
