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Date:      Wed, 20 May 1998 07:16:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
To:        Andrew Arensburger <arensb@cfar.umd.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Perl Shared Library
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980520071639.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
In-Reply-To: <199805201056.GAA10867@glitnir.cfar.umd.edu>

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Thanks for the response.  I'll take a stab at them.  

Right now, I am about to hand this project off to a C programmer friend of
mine.  It's taking too much time, and the C would be tiny (40 lines max).

But I do want to figure this out, so I'll go ahead and try them.

Patrick


On 20-May-98 Andrew Arensburger wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 May 1998 14:45:33 EDT, Patrick Gardella wrote:
>> I am using the Perl Compiler with perl 5.003.  One of the things the author
>> suggests is to compile libperl.a as a shared library.  He gives examples of
>> Digital Unix and Linux, but neither of those work.  I've looked in the
>> archives, and did not find anything specific to the perl shared library. 
> 
>       Unfortunately, I can't give you a step-by-step walkthrough
> either, but here's what I'd do (and have done, the last time I needed
> to). And I don't have any FreeBSD machines handy, so I can't even look
> it up easily.
>       Look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config and /usr/share/mk (?). These
> are both repositories of recipes for building different types of
> files; the first is for 'imake', the second is for Berkeley 'make'.
> 
>       If you're not familiar with 'imake' or the finer points of
> 'make', these files will look pretty cryptic and intimidating, but
> don't let them get to you. Look for likely-looking strings (e.g.,
> references to shared libraries in the comments, ".so.", etc.), and
> experiment.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Arensburger, Systems guy               Center for Automation Research
> arensb@cfar.umd.edu                   University of Maryland
>            hristo mou! eho ena tsekouri sto kefali mou!

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