Re: [wxperl-users] WxPerl on FreeBSD?

[Bert D. <dri...@pl...>]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Mattia Barbon wrote:

> > Alternatively I could build seperate non-threaded libraries just for
> > WxPerl (which, by the way, is not the only victim of the way threads are
> > handled on FreeBSD), but in my experience it's pretty hard to make Perl
> > play ball with that setup, unless those libs are linked in
> > statically. I've had some successes doing that in the past, but it's not
> > fun exercise...
> Does this really mean that if you have
> libwxgtk.so ( or whatever ) dynamically linked to a perl extension,
> this does not work ? and setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH ( or whatever it is on *BSD ) does 
> not work either ? This is weird...

LD_LIBRARY_PATH will be honored, but FreeBSD does not honor LD_RUN_PATH
when building a .so (it does for the final app, but that would mean Perl
itself, which is precisely what we don't need).

> OTOH, if you resolve this, would you mind writing some instructions
> to put on INSTALL.txt ?

If I do (and that's a big if :-) I'll make sure I write up the recipy.

Cheers,

				-- Bert

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