OpenEuphoria

Re: wxEuphoria: Debian and wxeu.so

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Oct 09, 2006
• 512 views

Jerry Story wrote:
> 
> I got this message from someone trying to run dmak. (again)
> 
> [quote]
> 
> I have Debian Linux, I downloaded wxeu.so-9.tar.gz  and installed wxeu.so in
> my /usr/lib and ran dmak and I got the following message:
> 
> The wxEuphoria Library "wxeu.so" could not be opened
> Press any key to exit.
> 
> The permissions are read by all...
> 
> [/quote]
> 
> wxeu.so is in the right place. It is not a permissions problem.
> 
> Suggestion for wxEuphoria:
> Would it be possible to put more information in the error message? I mean
> instead
> of only "could not be opened" could it tell them what to do about it. Maybe
> a list of possible reasons why it could not be opened. Maybe if they are
> running
> Debian do this, if they are running Ubuntu do that, etc.


One of my goals is to give a better choice of binaries.  And you're right,
there should be some additional information.  I'll work on that.  If anyone
has recompiled on some distro, I'd be happy to put it up on the site.

In the mean time, I believe the immediate thing to try would be to run

 $ ldd /usr/lib/wxeu.so

That should identify the problem.  On some systems, adding a symlink for
an older library might work, though it's not really the best solution.

Matt Lewis