[Fxruby-users] Re: Build problem with FXRuby on Debian

[Lyle J. <ly...@kn...>]

On Nov 24, 2003, at 3:52 AM, cj...@ma... wrote:

> I have Ruby 1.8.0 on Debian, and built FXRuby-1.0.27 last night.
> In irb, require 'fox' yields:
>
> LoadError: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux/fox.so: 
> undefined symbol: _ZN5FXApp9metaClassE - 
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux/fox.so
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux/fox.so
>
> c++filt says _ZN5FXApp9metaClassE is FXApp::metaClass.
>
> Any idea why this symbol is undefined?
>

Please see the topic "Cannot load library" under the "Things That Can 
Go Wrong" section of this page:

	http://www.fxruby.org/doc/build.html

I am guessing that the FOX library (libFOX.so) is installed in a 
directory that isn't in the load path for dynamic libraries.

Hope this helps,

Lyle