On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hallo dia-list, > > I got a problem here with Dia on Cygwin. > > I use libtool and all works fine, besides some minor modifications to > the base files for the autogenerated files (and recreation of > Makefile.in & configure et.al) I have not changed the source to build > it. However, I doesn't work. The first problem seems to be in > lib/plug-ins.c. It should figure out that libtool is used (which is > default on non Windows platform, then use the .la file to find the > real name of the module/plug-in to load. But as I ran into the > problems, I saw that dia requires the modules to be named in the usual > unix fashion (libxyz.so instead of cygxyz.dll as it is on Cygwin). > > It is probably this part of plug-ins.c (this_is_a_plugin()) where .so > is hardcoded and the name of the library is basename of 'libxyz.la' > (='libxyz') plus '.so': > > #if USING_LIBTOOL > basename = g_strndup(name,len-PLUG_IN_EXT_LEN); > soname = g_strconcat(basename,".so",NULL); > ... > > This is wrong, since we have already the function which looks up the > filename: find_real_filename(), it should also be used? > > I changed this to be: > #if USING_LIBTOOL > basename = g_strndup(name,len-PLUG_IN_EXT_LEN); > soname = find_real_filename(name); > ... > > and it works as expected. > > Now I can run dia (without renaming cygxzy.dll files to libxyz.so > files), however, another error came up, it says "cannot load > /usr/lib/cygxslt.dll" which is probably a similar problem (but not the > same), because the imortlib used for linking is 'libxslt.la' but the > name of the DLL in the klibtool library is '../bin/cygxslt-1.dll', the > importlib is 'libxslt.dll.a' and therefore, I have no idea why dia > wants to load a "cygxslt.dll". I also have not looked up the relevant > part in the code. > > I have no patch attached yet, see it as a heads-up because it seems > there are some more parts which need to be fixed for a successful > build on Cygwin (and other, non-.so platforms).
Looking forward to it. The more compilation, the better. > Anyway, many thanks for providing such an interesting piece of code to > the open source community, Thanks go to Alex, primarily, for building a good base. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
