On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:13 PM, OpenDBX devel list <
libopendbx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 30 April 2009 15:05:31 OpenDBX devel list wrote:
> > I don't know why. From Smalltalk (Squeak) I use a package called FFI
> > (Foreign Function Interface) to talk to openDBX. To FFI I have to tell it
> > the "module name". In my case I have "opendbx". So, then, It will look at
> > the libopendbx.so shared library. And it doesn't found libopendbx.so.1.
> > Perhaps it's a problem with FFI. I really don't know.
>
> Seems to be a general problem with FFI that it only looks for
> libopendbx.so.
> Maybe it would be better for FFI to let the linker do the job (if
> possible).
Yes. I asked in squeak mailing lists about how FFI do this and now I
understand.
>
>
> > > Please don't forget to also install the
> > > libopendbx-dev package before compiling and linking your code to have
> the
> > > header file and the link (/usr/lib/libopendbx.so) to the current
> library
> > > (/usr/lib/libopendbx.so.1) available.
> >
> > I didn't understand this. Why I need to install libopendbx-dev ? If I
> don't
> > want dev files are they necessary ? .
>
> Like I said, you only need them if you want to compile and link your code
> with
> libopendbx. You don't need the "dev" package if you run the resulting
> binary
> code.
Ok. Now I get it.
>
> Otherwise, the "dev" package creates the /usr/lib/libopendbx.so link for
> you
> automatically which might be a workaround as long als FFI only looks for a
> file with this name.
>
Perfect.
Thanks for the help!
Mariano
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