Re: [OpenBabel-scripting] Open Babel for Java

[Geoffrey H. <ge...@ge...>]

On Dec 17, 2006, at 7:33 PM, richard apodaca wrote:

> But now I get a new series of errors when this code is
> run:
...
>   /usr/local/lib/openbabel/cifformat.so did not load
> properly

This sounds like the problems we had with the Python and Perl  
wrappers, e.g.:
if sys.platform.find(\"linux\") != -1:
     import dl
     sys.setdlopenflags(sys.getdlopenflags() | dl.RTLD_GLOBAL)

I'm not sure what the appropriate fix would be for Java. Basically,  
Open Babel loads its file format shared libraries separately from the  
library. Probably the best solution would be to write to the SWIG  
list and find out if there's a global solution. (Strange that it's  
not an issue with Ruby, evidently.)

As I've learned, adding new languages with SWIG is always an  
adventure. :-)

Thanks guys!
-Geoff