From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 04:15:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA14634 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 04:15:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (sendmail@iglou2.iglou.com [192.107.41.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA14583 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 04:15:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from gateway.cre8tivegroup.com [204.255.227.123] by iglou.com with esmtp (8.7.3/8.6.12) id 0yc6q5-0003GK-00; Wed, 20 May 1998 07:15:18 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199805201056.GAA10867@glitnir.cfar.umd.edu> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 07:16:39 -0400 (EDT) Organization: The Creative Group From: Patrick Gardella To: Andrew Arensburger Subject: Re: Perl Shared Library Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the response. I'll take a stab at them. Right now, I am about to hand this project off to a C programmer friend of mine. It's taking too much time, and the C would be tiny (40 lines max). But I do want to figure this out, so I'll go ahead and try them. Patrick On 20-May-98 Andrew Arensburger wrote: > > On Mon, 18 May 1998 14:45:33 EDT, Patrick Gardella wrote: >> I am using the Perl Compiler with perl 5.003. One of the things the author >> suggests is to compile libperl.a as a shared library. He gives examples of >> Digital Unix and Linux, but neither of those work. I've looked in the >> archives, and did not find anything specific to the perl shared library. > > Unfortunately, I can't give you a step-by-step walkthrough > either, but here's what I'd do (and have done, the last time I needed > to). And I don't have any FreeBSD machines handy, so I can't even look > it up easily. > Look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config and /usr/share/mk (?). These > are both repositories of recipes for building different types of > files; the first is for 'imake', the second is for Berkeley 'make'. > > If you're not familiar with 'imake' or the finer points of > 'make', these files will look pretty cryptic and intimidating, but > don't let them get to you. Look for likely-looking strings (e.g., > references to shared libraries in the comments, ".so.", etc.), and > experiment. > > -- > Andrew Arensburger, Systems guy Center for Automation Research > arensb@cfar.umd.edu University of Maryland > hristo mou! eho ena tsekouri sto kefali mou! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message