Re: luafilesystem makefile issue

[Julien MARBACH <jmh@...>]

Julien MARBACH a écrit :

> hello,
> I'm trying to install the Xavante webserver that has cgilua in its 
> dependencies, and cgilua needs Luafilesystem. Compiling cgilua 
> includes the build of luafilesystem. During the compilation of the 
> luafilesystem files I encountered the following compilation errors : 
> (in the "make cgi" process)
>
> gcc -O2 -Wall -fPIC -W -Waggregate-return -Wcast-align 
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings 
> -I/usr/local/include/lua5 -I../compat -dynamiclib  -o 
> liblfs.1.0b.dylib lfs.o compat-5.1.o -llua -llualib -lm -ldl
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/../../../crt1.o(.text+0x18): In 
> function `_start':
> ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:98: undefined reference to `main'
>
> My first thoughts where that there's no need for a main function while 
> compiling what seems to be a shared library... So I investigated more 
> deeply and found out that the "-dynamiclib" option was a "darwin"  
> (mac OSX) gcc option, and not a linux one. The equivalent for linux is 
> "-shared". Using the -shared option in state of the -dynamiclib one 
> solved the compilation problem.
>
> I don't know if it is a concern for the luafilesystem guys or the 
> cgilua ones... But I've seen that the luafilesystem/cgilua projects 
> admin is active in this list, so i believe he will be interessed in 
> this point. It's perhaps specified somewhere that the build process is 
> made for darwin and not linux, but I've not seen this mentioned 
> anywhere. The version of cgilua I'm uising is cgilua-5.0b2.
>
> Thanks,
>
> julien MARBACH
Forget it, it's explained in the config file...... I need some sleep !

# OS dependent
LIB_EXT= .dylib
#LIB_EXT= .so
LIB_OPTION= -dynamiclib #for MacOS X
#LIB_OPTION= -shared #for Linux

Julien