Re: dylib name on Mac OS X
- From: Dimiter 'malkia' Stanev <malkia@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 10:06:06 -0700
On 5/31/2012 7:44 AM, Douglas Creager wrote:
Apologies if this has already been answered on the list before. I'm
trying to embed LuaJIT in another application using libluajit as a
shared library. But I noticed that the name of the shared library
file is different on Mac vs Linux. On Linux, you get libluajit-5.1.so
(and its versioned friends). But on Mac, you get libluajit-51.dylib
-- i.e., without the dot in the version suffix. The *static* library,
on the other hand, is libluajit-5.1.a on both platforms.
I can see exactly in the Makefile where this is done, and I can see
the change that would make the filenames consistent. But I was
wondering if there's a specific reason for the different filename
before I go hacking on anything.
I ask because I'd like to just use the compiler and linker flags from
LuaJIT's pkg-config file, without having to hard-code any per-platform
logic into my build scripts. But the pkg-config file has -lluajit-5.1
on both platforms. So end result, on Linux, I link with the shared
library, while on Mac, I embed the static library.
thanks
--doug
If nothing else works, on OSX you can change the name afterwards with
install_name_tool, just man it.
I manually install_name_tool all dylibs myself, and what they link to.
Then check with "otool -L thelib.dylib"
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