Re: MXE Octave: "... has no symbols" warning under Mac OS X

[Alexander Hansen]

On 8/27/13 1:43 PM, c. wrote:
> On 27 Aug 2013, at 10:26, Anirudha Bose <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > dyld: Library not loaded: libcholmod.so
> >    Referenced from: /Users/mac6-user1/./mxe-octave/usr/bin/octave
> >    Reason: image not found
> > Trace/BPT trap: 5
>
> this error message looks quite strange, on OSX shared libraries use the extension .dylib 
> not .so so it sounds strange that you have linked to a library named 
> "libcholmod.so"
> c.

That's the convention, but it's possible to generate an OS X shared 
library with a ".so" extension if the build procedure doesn't make a 
distinction for OS X.  We often have to patch "handcrafted" builds to do 
this.

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