Re: Porting to SCO OpenServer 6.0.0 - soffice will not load

John Wolfe wrote:
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> Error: File /u/oo-jlw/build/cppuhelper/source/implbase_ex.cxx, Line 252:
>  cannot get type description for type
>  "com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory"!
> 
> Conceivably, this could be expected on initial startup or even at all 
> startups ???
> 
> Or, is this an indication that some static initialization has
> not been accomplished or not done correctly?
> 
> The types.rdb is not read (mmap'ed) in until later.

Information about UNO types (functions getCppuType and, lately added, 
cppu_detail_getUnoType) can be generated in two ways by cppumaker: 
either "comprehensive," including all the necessary data in the function 
body, or "light," just pointing to the information in types.rdb.  Some 
shared libraries that are used during soffice bootstrap use the 
comprehensive way (as types.rdb is not yet mmapped, as you observed), 
while all other shared libraries use the light way.

Now, I suspect that you have trouble with symbol exports, that multiple 
shared libraries (or probably the soffice.bin executable as well) export 
say the XMultiServiceFactory getCppuType function (some the 
comprehensive, some the light version), and some bootstrap library that 
exports the comprehensive version nevertheless uses the light version 
exported from somewhere else.  The MacIntel port had a similar problem.

-Stephan

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