[cells-gtk-devel] Building cells-gtk on Ubuntu7.10

[Peter Hildebrandt]

Hi Greg,

welcome aboard.  I run cells-gtk on ubuntu 7.10 as well, so it is
possible to begin with :-)

So the first thing to do is to check whether you have the required
library in the usual location, that is in /usr/lib:

ls -l /usr/lib/|grep libgob.*\.so

For me there are:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       26 2007-11-21 20:38 libgobject-2.0.so ->
libgobject-2.0.so.0.1400.1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       26 2007-11-04 17:45 libgobject-2.0.so.0
-> libgobject-2.0.so.0.1400.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   241168 2007-09-17 12:04 libgobject-2.0.so.0.1400.1

The first two are symbolic links pointing to the last (which is the
real library here, recognizable by the size (fourth column)).

So probably what you need to do is create a symlink in there:

cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s <your-real-library> libgobject-2.0.so

That should fix it.

Btw, the 2006 build is obviously quite old, so you might consider
using the current version from cvs or even the cells-gtk3 version (if
you feel adventerous).

Peter



On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Greg Bennett <gwbennett at sentex.ca> wrote:
> Hullo there .. I am trying to build cells-gtk (from cells-gtk-2006-06-30)
> under CMUCL19a-release-20040728 on a Linux box running Ubuntu7.10 and
> following the INSTALL.TXT file which can with cells.
>
>  I fired up CMUCL, changed to the directory in which I had installed cells,
> and executed (load "load") as suggested.
>
>  The compilation raced happily along until:
>
>  ; converted load-gtk-libs.
>  ; compiling DEFUN LOAD-GTK-LIBS:
>  ; Byte compiling file Top-level Form:
>
>  Unable to load foreign library: libgobject-2.0.so
>   [Condition of type CFFI:LOAD-FOREIGN-LIBRARY-ERROR]
>
>  I'm interested in cells for GUI work in porting a project from
> Macintosh/Windows to Linux and therefore I am having to teach myself about
> Linux too as an administrator - I do have a modicum of Unix experience as a
> user. The above message suggests either I am missing the library referred
> to, or I have failed to include it in the PATH which (load "load") is using
> to find things.
>
>  Thanks in advance for any and all advice about how to advance beyond this
> temporary (I hope) stumble.
>
>  Cheers /Greg Bennett
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