Re: [Openexr-devel] problems with building EXR Shake plugin

[Rod Bogart]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Qin Shen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We are attempting to build the EXR shake plugin, so far without much success.
> 
> If we link the libraries dynamically, we get a run-time error
> "error: libIlmImf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
> directory"
> Why is it asking for *.so.0 files?
> 
> Alternatively, if we attempt to statically link the .a files, we still get 
> run-time errors
> such as
> "error: /home/jeanshen/nreal/include/startup//exrFormat.so: undefined symbol: 
> compress"
> 
> We are sure that the library path is set correctly. We have compiled both the 
> EXR
> libraries and the shake plugin using g++2.96.
> 
> Any help and suggestions will be appreciated.
> 
> -Jean

We've been compiling with 2.95.3 and all works fine.  We build libIlmImf.a
and link to that.

Is libz.a referred to correctly in your link line?  I suspect that is where
the "compress" undefined symbol would reside.

RGB