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From: "Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>
To: Romain Bardou <bardou@lri.fr>
Cc: Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer@googlemail.com>,
	OCaml List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Link a .so/.dll dynamically
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:07:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E70D140.8030507@glondu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E70CEAE.8030807@lri.fr>

On 09/14/2011 05:56 PM, Romain Bardou wrote:
> [...]
>     ocamlopt -c -ccopt -fPIC wrapper.c
>     ocamlopt -c mylib.ml
>     ocamlmklib wrapper.o mylib.cmx -o mylib
>     ocamlopt -c main.ml
>     ocamlopt dynlink.cmxa main.cmx -o main
>     CAML_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./main mylib.cmxa
> 
> But when Dynlink.load is called, it fails with the following error:
> 
>     error loading shared library: /home/.../mylib.cmxa: invalid ELF header
> 
> I'm thinking this is because the .cmxa has not been compiled with the
> -shared option, but I don't know how to tell ocamlmklib to compile with
> the -shared option.

You can turn the .cmxa generated by ocamlmklib into a .cmxs by calling
(for example):

  ocamlopt -shared -I . -linkall -o mylib.cmxs mylib.cmxa

The .cmxs should then be loadable by Dynlink.load.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-14 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-14 15:00 Romain Bardou
2011-09-14 15:35 ` Benedikt Meurer
     [not found] ` <83695D27-A767-438A-B909-6864D1A655FE@googlemail.com>
2011-09-14 15:56   ` Romain Bardou
2011-09-14 15:59     ` Benedikt Meurer
2011-09-14 16:03       ` Romain Bardou
2011-09-14 16:07         ` Jérémie Dimino
2011-09-14 16:07     ` Stéphane Glondu [this message]
2011-09-14 16:12       ` Romain Bardou
2011-09-14 16:34         ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-09-14 16:42           ` Romain Bardou
2011-09-14 16:56             ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-09-15  8:49               ` Romain Bardou
2011-09-15  9:20                 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-09-15  9:23                   ` Romain Bardou
2011-09-15  9:05               ` Romain Bardou
2011-09-14 16:15 ` Jérémie Dimino

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