Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 07:16:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: Andrew Arensburger <arensb@cfar.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl Shared Library Message-ID: <XFMail.980520071639.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <199805201056.GAA10867@glitnir.cfar.umd.edu>
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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
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