Re: library installation/Mac OS X

["Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>]

Following up on this fairly old thread (sorry if I'm wasting bandwidth):

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:17:01PM +0100, Karim BELABAS wrote:
> > What I exactly meant was to have two libraries:
> > > libparikernel.a  (src/kernel)
> > libpari.so       (the rest)
> > > and request that executables (in particular gp) be linked with 
> -lparikernel
> > -lpari.
>
> This does not solve the problems with Math::Pari: its build needs to
> produce a DLL, not an "executable".  Somehow, I did not see error
> reports related to this; are contemporary linkers smart enough to
> recognize that some .o files are not relocatable, so they produce
> non-shared DLLs?
>
> Ilya

The link below gives some insight into porting and shared libraries on 
darwin/Mac OS X.  Note that ".so" is not used for shared librares; 
instead, they are known as ".dylib"s.  Also, as I think was clarified in 
this thread, dlopen() and friends are not part of darwin, and although 
there is a port available, it's not actively being supported or (AFAIK) 
used.

 http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/index.php

Regards,

Justin

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