Re: [ft] Linking against freetype in Linux

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:36:26 +0100, Kris wrote:

> On 26/06/2019 22:59, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> 
>> Just for fun, would you like to try a simple Python script?
>> 
>>      import ctypes as ct
>>      ft = ct.cdll.LoadLibrary("libfreetype.so.6")
>>      hasattr(ft, "FT_Init_FreeType")
>> 
>> prints out
>> 
>>      True
>> 
>> on my system.  
> 
> Doesn't print anything on mine.

Sorry, make that last line

    print(hasattr(ft, "FT_Init_FreeType"))

That’s what happens when you only test things in Jupyter notebooks. ;)

> These lines DON'T report "ENOENT (No such file or directory)", so
> with that plus the results of the Python script, suggest that the
> linker is opening the libfreetype.so file OK, but then failing to
> find the symbol within it!

Except the ENOENT meant it wasn’t opening the library file OK, because
the path was wrong.