Jim,
loading a specific version of a shared library requires two things:
a. Use absolute path to the library in the cffi lib spec
b. Make sure the dependencies (see output of otool -L ) (the paths to the
dependencies) are at the beginning of the paths set in the environment variable
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Best
Frank
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Frank Gönninger
DG1SBG
Consequor Consulting AG
> Am 20.09.2016 um 16:46 schrieb Jim Newton <jimka.i...@gmail.com>:
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
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