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# on Sunday 12 December 2004 07:42 am:
>Hi,
> I am also trying to use a function inside the static library
>libX11.a - the XLookupString function. This function is declared in
>Xutil.h in the X11 directory. I used the options of LIBS => '-lX11'
> , INC => '/usr/include/X11' where the libX11.a is stored in my
> current directory. I also used #include <X11/Xutil.h> in the C
> code. But the out.Makefile.PL in the build directory says that
> -lX11 library was not found, and I get an error saying
> XLookupString is not defined. A similar C code with same
> compilation options works. Can someone help ?
Wait a second, you have libX11.a in your current directory? I'm not
sure if that will work, since Inline builds in a temp directory.
Maybe try the MYEXTLIB as shown below. That said, what follows is
the e-mail that I had already written before having that thought...
Are you suffering from the INC bug that I found? Maybe there is
something of the same happening with the LIBS variable? I was
running into INC getting cleared if Inline::C::validate was called
more than once. Look in the archives for "Inline::CPP => INC
problem" or try this diff:
$svn diff -r 295:296 external/Inline-C/Inline/C.pm
Index: external/Inline-C/Inline/C.pm
===================================================================
--- external/Inline-C/Inline/C.pm (revision 295)
+++ external/Inline-C/Inline/C.pm (revision 296)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
package Inline::C;
-$VERSION = '0.44';
+$VERSION = '0.45';
use strict;
require Inline;
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@
$o->{ILSM}{MAKEFILE} ||= {};
if (not $o->UNTAINT) {
require FindBin;
- $o->{ILSM}{MAKEFILE}{INC} = "-I$FindBin::Bin";
+ ($o->{ILSM}{MAKEFILE}{INC} =~ m/-I$FindBin::Bin/) or
+ ($o->{ILSM}{MAKEFILE}{INC} = "-I$FindBin::Bin");
}
$o->{ILSM}{AUTOWRAP} = 0 if not defined $o->{ILSM}{AUTOWRAP};
$o->{ILSM}{XSMODE} = 0 if not defined $o->{ILSM}{XSMODE};
I never got an answer when I copied Brian on this, but I see that CPAN
still has Inline::C at 0.44.
In my CAD::Drawing::IO::DWGI.pm, I use the following for the opendwg
(binary) library:
use Inline (
C => Config =>
INC => '-I/usr/local/include',
MYEXTLIB => '/usr/local/lib/ad2.a /usr/local/lib/ad2pic.a',
# ...
);
