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Squall
Joined: 22 Oct 2007
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 Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:49 am Post subject: libfreetype loading on linux |
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I use derelictFT which will load the freetype library on linux. The library it tries to load is: libfreetype.so
On debian and red-hat releases no such file name exists when the freetype2 package is installed rather they are called libfreetype.so.6 instead.
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user@vm-fruitbat:/mnt/svn/gltest$ ./test
Exception: Failed to load shared library Failed to load shared library libfreetype.so
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If, however, I install libfreetype-dev it works becuase a symlink from libfreetype.so to libfreetype.so.6 is created.
Infact libfreetype.so.6 is a sysmlink to libfreetype.so.6.3.16 on my system. Which leads me to think that derlict should be loading libfreetype.so.6 (for version 2) instead of libfreetype.so
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root@vm-fruitbat:/usr/lib# ls -l *freetype*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 535106 2007-09-21 01:11 libfreetype.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 820 2007-09-21 01:11 libfreetype.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-11-26 12:34 libfreetype.so -> libfreetype.so.6.3.16 *** ONLY WITH libfreetype-dev ****
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2007-10-22 12:33 libfreetype.so.6 -> libfreetype.so.6.3.16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 452396 2007-09-21 01:11 libfreetype.so.6.3.16
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Presumably a released application should not require libfreetype6-dev
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user@vm-fruitbat:~$ aptitude search libfreetype
i libfreetype6 - FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
p libfreetype6-dev - FreeType 2 font engine, development files
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aldacron
Joined: 05 May 2004
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Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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I really despise Linux shared library naming conventions. The Derelict loader's support for loading libraries by multiple names exists precisely because of this. It's just plain silly.
Anyway, thanks for reporting this. I'll update the freetype loader so that it tries to load the so.6 first.
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aldacron
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Squall
Joined: 22 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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Excelent, thanks!.
I don't fully understand the naming conventions and so I don't know what to make of them yet. |
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