Pof is difficult to maintain, especially on Linux, since it dynamically
links to many different libs; each distribution comes with a different
revision number for each lib.
So it's virtually impossible to compile Pof in a way that it's compatible
for every distribution.
My current workaround is to include most of the libs in Pof distribution,
in the pof/libs directory.
Unfortunately FLAC is not included in those included libs, so Pof tries to
link with system libraries, but there's no more libFLAC.so.8 in your system
version.
You can try to copy this lib from an older Linux distribution, try the one
attached here (it's actually a renamed libFLAC.so.8.3.0). But it's possible
other missing libs will appear then...
The real solution would be to compile Pof for each distribution. But other
problems arise there : openFrameworks is not yet ready for that. In
particular, all dependency libs must be recompiled with the -fPIC flag, to
allow building a dynamic library. I do it manually each time I want to
update OF... and it's a PITA. I still have to ask OF to add fPIC to every
lib compilation flag.
I really hope I can find the availability to continue maintaining Pof in
the future.
Antoine
Le mar. 16 déc. 2025 à 08:56, Alexandros Drymonitis <[email protected]> a
écrit :
> Since Pof came up in the thread below, I tried to use it and I'm getting
> the following error:
>
> ```
> /home/alex/Documents/Pd/externals/pof/pof.pd_linux:libFLAC.so.8: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> ```
>
> I do have libflac14 on my system (Debian 13) and there's no libflac8 in my
> system's repositories (apt-cache search libflac8 returned no results). How
> can this be resolved? Or is Pof abandoned?
>
>
Removed potentially harmful attachement: libFLAC.so.8
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