Re: Problem with an oct file that won't load

[John Swensen]

On Oct 23, 2008, at 10:36 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 23-Oct-2008, John Swensen wrote:
>
> | I have a problem where linking GTK libraries into an OCT file  
> prevents
> | it from loading properly in Octave.  I am using the latest from HG  
> (as
> | of last night) on OSX 10.5.  I do know for a fact that this does  
> work
> | on Ubuntu Linux 8.04.
> |
> | PROGRAM (testfunc.cc)
> | ---------------
> | #include <octave/oct.h>
> |
> | #include<iostream>
> | using namespace std;
> |
> | DEFUN_DLD (testfunc, args, , "")
> | {
> |    return octave_value();
> | }
> |
> |
> | COMPILE COMMANDS
> | ---------------------------------
> | 1) mkoctfile -v -o testfunc.oct  testfunc.cc
> | 2) mkoctfile -v -o testfunc.oct `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0
> | gtkgl-2.0 gtkmm-2.4` -L`pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 gtkgl-2.0
> | gthread-2.0 gtkmm-2.4` testfunc.cc
>
> Why are you using the -L in front of the `pkg-config ...` substitution
> here:
>
>  -L`pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 gtkgl-2.0 gthread-2.0 gtkmm-2.4`
>
> Doesn't the "pkg-config --libs ..." command print the -L part of the
> flags?
>
> jwe

While that is true that it shouldn't have -L, I still get the exact  
same error after removing the -L.

John Swensen