Re: Trouble building/loading shared libraries

[Fabian Peña <fapenia@...>]

Have your module embedded lua code  in plain or precompiled format ?.
Please review as they are being loaded, or verifies that the carriage
returns are according to their platform.


Paul Chiusano wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having problems loading a shared library, and I'm sure it is just
> something really simple!
> 
> I followed the instructions at:
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/BuildingModules to create the shared
> library. This is on mac OS 10.4. When I go to load it from lua via
> require 'numvector' (it's a numeric vector), I get the following
> error:
> 
> lua: error loading module 'numvector' from file
> '/Users/Paul/development/numeric/numvector.so':
>        /Users/Paul/development/numeric/numvector.so:1: unexpected
> symbol near 'þ'
> stack traceback:
>        [C]: ?
>        [C]: in function 'require'
>        (command line):1: in main chunk
>        [C]: ?
> 
> Strange! I thought this might be something peculiar about my mac
> setup, so I tried moving to linux and rebuilding the library. But I
> get a similar error:
> 
> error loading module 'numvector' from file './numvector.so':
>        ./numvector.so:1: unexpected symbol near 'char(127)'
> stack traceback:
>        [C]: ?
>        [C]: in function 'require'
>        stdin:1: in main chunk
>        [C]: ?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> -Paul
>