[sword-devel] Linux: Linking to Sword library with potentially different names

[Tobias Klein]

Mmmm... I guess you're right about that. Maybe a step before going 
"into" the repositories is to offer debian packages for regular download.

Best regards,
Tobias

On 17.04.19 09:00, refdoc at gmx.net wrote:
> I am not sure what you try to achieve. At the moment people who use 
> your app are fellow developers and others like me who compile gladly 
> ourselves. If you want ordinary users get it into the repos. Then the 
> lib linkage problem goes away too.
>
> Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird 
> autocorrects.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [sword-devel] Linux: Linking to Sword library with 
> potentially different names
> From: Tobias Klein
> To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum
> CC:
>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I need some advice from you Linux experts.
>
>     Cyrille tested Ezra Project on Linux and couldn't run it, because the
>     Sword package on that system (custom Sword 1.8.1 on Ubuntu 18.04)
>     contains a differently named *.so file than on my system (Default
>     Sword
>     package from Ubuntu 18.04 => libsword11v5).
>
>     What can I do to support multiple *.so variants with the same
>     binary? Is
>     there a way to do that?
>
>     I was thinking about creating a symlink within my application
>     directory
>     structure that can be adjusted at runtime based on some dynamic
>     system
>     inspection code.
>
>     Best regards,
>     Tobias
>
>
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