Re: ctypes dlopen unresolved symbols simple issue

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Patricio Stegmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> I have a little problem trying to load a .so on linux.
> Basically if I do:
>
> ld my_lib.so
>
> it tells me undefined reference to XInitThreads
>
> if I do:
>
> ld -lX11 my_lib.so
>
> it works fine ...

When I had a similar problem (but with other libraries), I first
loaded the depending library(ies) using:

libx11 = ctypes.CDLL("libX11.so.6", mode=ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL)

(note the "modes" keyword)

followed by my own library:

mylib = ctypes.CDLL("mylib.so")

Regards,
-- 
Anderson Lizardo
Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia (INdT)
Manaus - Brazil

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