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Date:      Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:14:05 -0600
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cannot find -ldl
Message-ID:  <1F4AC027F1810869C729B5B1@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
In-Reply-To: <43D90170.3000008@dial.pipex.com>
References:  <3EA9A5749CCE92F90AA269F4@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <43D90170.3000008@dial.pipex.com>

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--On Thursday, January 26, 2006 17:05:52 +0000 Alex Zbyslaw 
<xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote:

> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
>> I'm fiddling with an app that was probably written for/on Linux.  It
>> configures fine, but when I make, I get the error "cannot find -ldl".
>> Is there a FreeBSD equivalent for libldl?  A workaround?  A library
>> that I'm missing?
>
> No direct answer for you, but the library you want is libdl not libldl,
> that might help you with googling.
>
That doesn't help with googling for the error message, however it solves my 
problem.

 locate libdl
/usr/X11R6/lib/plugins/designer/libdlgplugin.so
/usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl-2.3.2.so
/usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2

So I need to use linux compatibility mode.  Thanks.
> --Alex
>



Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/



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