There's no problem having a file been known by two names.
Just ln -s myNode.so libmyNode.so
Regards,
Nico
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:56:11AM -0700, Rasmus Tamstorf wrote:
> I've been trying to build some of my custom inventor nodes on linux, but
> I'm running into problems with the linker (ld), so I'm wondering if anyone
> has solved this problem.
>
> Generally, when loading an ivfile (say with ivview) which has a node of
> type 'myNode', inventor will try to load a DSO called 'myNode.so'. I can
> create this DSO just fine, but when I come around to building my
> application 'myApp' which deals with 'myNode' I get into trouble because I
> have to link with 'myNode.so'.
>
> The link line for 'myApp' is something like :
>
> ld -o myApp myApp.o -lmyNode -lInventor
>
> but the gnu linker insists on translating '-lmyNode' into 'libmyNode.so'
> and since the real name is 'myNode.so' it fails :-( The SGI linker
> actually looks for both 'libmyNode.so' and 'myNode.so' so here it works
> fine.
>
> The obvious workaround is to rename my new node to 'libmyNode', but I
> already have a *LOT* of iv files using the 'myNode' naming convention, so
> I'd rather not do that.
>
> The other workaround is to change inventor to look for 'myNode.so' and if
> that fails then look for 'libmyNode.so'. This seems doable.
>
> However, it seems to me that the "right" solution is to fix 'ld' so
> libraries don't *have* to start their name with lib, but I don't know
> enough about linking to tell whether that'll break other things.
>
> Has anyone else run into this problem ? Am I overlooking something
> obvious ?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Rasmus
>
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