[pygtk] regarding use of runtime libraries

[Hrvoje Nikšić]

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 00:19 -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote:
> When i compile my extension, it compiles successfully, but while importing
> it displays
> error message as "undefined symbol  app_cell_get_label" where
> app_cell_get_label is function provided by
> shared library (.so file in /usr/local/lib/) 
> 
> what should i do make my extension dynamically access the functions of that
> .so file at runtime (this .so file is not a python module or extension, its
> a normal library)

You probably need to link the Python module against the library, using
-lname, where "name" is the name of the library without the starting
"lib" and ending ".so".  If on Linux, don't forget to
have /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf and tu run "ldconfig" after
installing the shared library.

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