[wxruby-users] wxRuby 1.9.9 released

[Alex Fenton]

Hi Franz

Irlweg, Franz (ZNT) wrote:
> Hello together,
>
> I tried to install wxruby 1.9.9 () on a SLES10 Linux server.
>
> - First I installed the wxWidgets rpm.
> - then the wxruby gem
>
> When trying to start an example I get the following error:
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/wxruby-1.9.9-x86-linux/lib/wxruby2.so:
> libwx_gtk2u_gl-2.8.so.0: cannot open       shared object file: No such
> file or directory -
...
>
> ldd wxruby2.so
>
> ./wxruby2.so: /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_stc-2.8.so.0: no version information
> available (required by ./wxruby2.so)
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
>         libwx_gtk2u_stc-2.8.so.0 => /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_stc-2.8.so.0
> (0xb761c000)
>         libwx_gtk2u_gl-2.8.so.0 => not found
>         libwx_gtk2u_media-2.8.so.0 => not found
>         libwx_gtk2u_richtext-2.8.so.0 => not found
... etc

Thanks for the report. I think the problem is that the Ubuntu wxWidgets 
that the gem was built against was compiled in 'multilib' form - ie with 
each group of features in a separate .so. It looks like the .rpm you 
have was built 'monolithic' - ie with everything stuffed into a single 
.so. Could you see what "wx-config --libs" returns please?

I'm not sure how we get around this if different distros build in 
different ways. How did you get on previously with the statically-linked 
gems?

cheers
alex