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

[Greg Hellings]

Tobias,

What form is your code in? Where does the repo live? Is it a C/C++ app? A
Python app?

--Greg

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:27 PM Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info> wrote:

> 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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