On 2007-10-28 20:49+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > using strace made it clear why the command did not output anything: > it was missing a couple of DLLs. (An annoying property of Windows: > command-line programs that are missing DLLs may fail completely > silently - no message or message box). > > Anyway, the attachment shows the output from: > ./get-drv-info ps.so > > I have little experience with strace, so I can not say much > about the cause of it all.
Thanks for that output. My interpretation of it is the libltdl library which is called by get-drv-info looks in the correct directory for the ps dynamically loaded device under the following alternative names: ps.so.la ps.so.la.lnk ps.so.dll ps.so.dll.lnk However, none of those alternative names are the correct one for the ps dynamically loaded device file so it fails. Try renaming ps.so as ps.dll and then try ./get-drv-info.exe ps My bet is that will at least find the file. That is, from the current strace evidence it will try ps.la, ps.la.lnk, and finally the ps.dll alternative which will work because of your rename. With luck, the symbol lookup afterward will work as well. I think we are really close to a Cywin dynamic devices solution here (which would take only a few minutes to implement under CMake) so I am very much looking forward to your reply. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
