[Ficl-developers] Linking?

[Michel P. <mi...@zo...>]

Ficl looks pretty cool.  Gots a embedding ficl question.  I'm embedding
a ficl vm into Python extension module.  The stub module currently works
like this:

$ python
>>> import ficl
>>> v = ficl.vm()
>>> v
<FiclVM object at 0x80cbcd8>
>>>

When the module ficl (which is written in C) is imported, a .so file is
dynamicly loaded.  The C function that gets called looks like this:

DL_EXPORT(void)
initficl(void)
{
  PyObject *module, *module_dict;
  FICL_SYSTEM *fs;

  // do some Python initializations ....

  fs = ficlInitSystem(32000)
}

This code compiles into ficl.so ( the "extention module") fine, but when
I want to import the 'ficl' module I get an error:

>>> import ficl
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: libficl.so.3.0.0: cannot load shared object file: No shuch
file or directory
>>>

Python can't find libficl.so.3.0.0, which is right there in the 'ficl'
subdirectory, even when I put it right in the same directory as
ficl.so.  Here's the gcc compile command:

gcc -Ificl -c ficlmodule.c -o ficlmodule.o
gcc -shared ficlmodule.o -Lficl -lficl -o ficl.so

Any tips?  Thanks!  Sorry I don't know much about building C.

-Michel