Re: Mac OS X .dylib not working

[Hans Aberg]

On 2 Feb 2010, at 07:42, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> > On Mac OS X (trying it on 10.5.8 PPC G4), guile-1.8.7 cannot open
> > dynamic library files with name extensions .dylib, but only if they
> > are renamed using .so instead. On the Bug-Guile list they say it
> > just calls libltdl, in the libtool package. I have installed latest
> > of both, but the problem persists:
>
> libtool should produce modules named *.so on Darwin if you pass the
> -module flag at link time.  Typically, -avoid-version is used for
> modules as well.


But dlopen() on Mac OS X can only open files in the native format,  
which isn't ELF, and they are typically named with the .dylib file  
name extension. If it finds a .so file on ELF format, all it does is  
reporting it cannot be opened.

  Hans