Help needed with libdl and dlopen

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Matt Broughton Author

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Help needed with libdl and dlopen

Mac Mini G4; B&W G3/300

Posted on Aug 1, 2007 6:23 PM

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Answer 1

Jun T.

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Aug 1, 2007 11:40 PM in response to Matt Broughton

I don't have any Mac running 10.2 so I can't test by myself, but I guess you can install "dlcompat" package by using fink or DarwinPorts.

(DarwinPorts has been renamed MacPorts, but their recent versions do not suppot Jaguar. They have old DarwinPorts in their repository)

http://dlcompat.darwinports.com/
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/dlcompat

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Matt Broughton Author

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Aug 2, 2007 6:13 PM in response to Jun T.

Thanks for the pointer to dlcompat. Taking a look around, it looks like Fink may be the best bet if they are still supporting Jaguar. It looks like Fink wants gcc3.3 for Jaguar. I thought I had the latest tools installed and it only showed gcc3.1-prerelease. It's been a long time since I did any real work in Jaguar. I keep it around mainly for testing.

Poking around the various versions of Mac OS X, I find that dlopen was included as a built in beginning with Panther. That would explain why creating a symlink to libSystem didn't work in Jaguar.

Matt

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Matt Broughton Author

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Aug 2, 2007 6:41 PM in response to Matt Broughton

It looks like Fink wants gcc3.3 for Jaguar. I thought I had the latest tools installed and it only showed gcc3.1-prerelease.

I did find the gcc3.3 updater for the December 2002 Developer Tools.

Matt

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Matt Broughton Author

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Aug 3, 2007 5:59 PM in response to Matt Broughton

Not to make this a soliloquy, but I found that the dlcompat source code from Fink didn't need any patching. It was a simple configure, make, make install. HPIJS was able to find and use the new dllib.1.dylib.

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