Re: Announcing Ferret V5.0: shared libraries

["Milton L. Hankins" <mlh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Would it not be better to link statically against X11R6 and Motif?
Not many Linux users have Motif libraries.  (Though I suppose there is
LessTiff -- comments, anyone?)

I'm pretty sure one can't use dlsym/dlopen to access static libraries,
but it should be possible to use those calls even though you've linked
statically with other libraries.

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On Thu, 03 Jun 1999, Steve Hankin wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback on this shared library business.
> 
> Due to peculiarities of the linkers -- different on each Unix system --
> the use of dynamic linking in Ferret's external functions framework has
> brought along with it other shared library dependencies. On a case by
> case basis we have tried to minimize these -- but some dependencies
> remain.
> 
> On the Ferret Web pages we will create lists of the shared library
> dependencies, so you can anticipate these before installation. And we
> will continue to look for ways to force static linking.
> 
> Thanks for your patience on this issue. If anyone out there has
> experience with linking static libraries while using dlsym/dlopen we'd
> love to hear from you!