OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria 2.3 and Linking to GTK

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jun 18, 2001
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Brendon Sly writes:
> I ran the snippet on my 'getting a bit old and patched by now' 
> RedHat 6.2  server and got 0 returned by both 
> 'open_dll' and 'my_open_dll'. 

I'm using an even older Red Hat 5.2.

> I did check that both 'libdl.so' and 'libgtk.so' exist
> and they're both links but they point to libraries 
> that do exist ('libdl.a' and 'libgtk-1.2.so.0.5.1' respectively).

".a" means static library. 
open_dll only opens dynamic libraries (.so).

On my system, libdl.so and libgtk.so are both
located in /usr/lib. They are both links to other files.
I'm a bit surprised that no one other than me can
link with them.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com