[cells-gtk-devel] Re: Cells-gtk]

[Kenny Tilton]

Peter Denno wrote:

>On Thursday 26 May 2005 17:05, rm at seid-online.de wrote:
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>>On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:52:59PM -0400, Peter Denno wrote:
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>>>On Thursday 26 May 2005 15:19, Kenny Tilton wrote:
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>>>>Fred Gilham wrote:
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>>>>>Just FYI, I tried running cells-gtk under CMUCL and FreeBSD.  I got it
>>>>>to compile by fiddling with the library pathnames in gtk-ffi.lisp and
>>>>>creating links in /usr/local/lib to all the necessary C libraries.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>The way we look for gtk libraries is quite flawed. It didn't even work on
>>>my system after a minor OS update. Does anyone here have ideas or
>>>examples of how to do this better?
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>>Hmm, i can't speak for all OSs but at least for Linux and BSD one should
>>_not_ provide a path to the call to dlopen (unless one really needs to load
>>a library from a nonstandard place).
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>Hi Ralf,
>
>Thanks. I think you mentioned this before, but now it is starting to sink in. 
>It works (just loading "libglib-2.0.so" etc). So for linux/cmucl at least, we 
>don't need all this searching for paths to the libraries.
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>I'll need to check what lispworks and allegro are doing.
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>For each of macosx and windows we look in only one place for the libraries.
>
Oy, this discussion reminds me that I have been meaning to extend hello-c to Just Work(tm) on loading libraries. Back when Cello got ported to Linux, Frank Goenninger added a bunch of fancy code to Cello to get libraries loaded. I had the same thought then: let's do this in Hello-C, not Cello or Cells-Gtk.

Gee, for once the Open Source fairy is whining at other people to do work for him. :) But seriously, please, whoever tackles this, put any fixes in Hello-C and send me what you do and I will commit it to Hello-C.

thx, kenzo


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