Re: [openbabel-scripting] Perl bindings

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

On Apr 12, 2006, at 3:24 AM, Steven Enoch wrote:

> Does anybody have any experience with getting the Perl bindings for  
> openbabel to work?  I have downloaded and installed OpenBabel 2.0,  
> I can get the C++ utilities to compile without any trouble, however  
> when I try and compile the Perl bindings I get the following errors  
> when I run make test:

It's the same bug -- the Perl and Python bindings worked just fine  
for me on Mac OS X, but it turns out that Linux has different options  
for loading shared plugins.

The "real solution" is in the 2.0.1 release, along with updated  
bindings for more classes and a pile of bug-fixes. I'd be happy to  
send anyone the release candidate -- it should be released in a week  
or two. If you want it, please e-mail me off-list.

A workaround in the meantime is to make a small change in OpenBabel.pm:

Find the line near the top:
@EXPORT = qw( );

Change it to read:
@EXPORT = qw( ); sub dl_load_flags { 0x01 }

Cheers,
-Geoff