Re: GP2C

[Justin Walker <justin@mac.com>]

On Thursday, Apr 17, 2003, at 23:28 US/Pacific, Justin Walker wrote:

> On Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003, at 03:27 US/Pacific, Karim BELABAS wrote:
[snip]
> > The real problem is that, although install() now works on OS X [ I 
> > think
> > and hope... ] as far as loading symbols from gp's global context 
> > goes, we
> > still have not tried it with external "bundles", nor built into 
> > Configure the
> > necessary magic to build a dynamically loadable object.
>
> I noticed that 2.2.5->2.2.6 seemed to take away building the shared 
> library on Mac OS X.  Is that easy to repair?
[snip]
> > If it does work, then a trivial fix to config/get_dlld might do [ 
> > just have
> > to add darwin to the list of supported systems, lines 12-24 ]
>
> For 'pari', I added two darwin entries:
> in the '$osname-$arch' case statement:
>   darwin-*)soname=dyld ; sodest= ;DLSUFFIX=dylib ;;
> in the '$osname' case statement:
>       darwin)  DLLD=/usr/bin/gcc ;;
> Something else is needed, though.  Not sure what, yet.  At least, when 
> I cobbled together a libtool line, I got a .dylib.  Not sure yet 
> whether it works, though.

A nit: you (I) need libtool1.4.3 on Mac OS X to successfully build a 
shared library (at least, that was the experience of the LiDIA folk).

Regards,

Justin

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