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From: "Markus Hoenicka" <markus DOT hoenicka AT mhoenicka DOT de>
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:49:06 +0200
To: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>
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Subject: RE: Problem in compiling : cannot find -ldl
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Hi,

Unix != Linux. FreeBSD does not use libdl either, the dl*() functions
are provided by libc instead. The -ldl requirements should be checked
in the configure script IMHO.

regards,
Markus

Ralf Habacker writes:
 > > libdl is a linux'ism. You don't need it. We don't have it :-) Just
 > > remove '-ldl' from the Makefile or link line.
 > >
 > 
 > Hmmh, is cygwin a unix emulation environment ? Usually in linux libdl contains
 > symbols for dynamic loading of shared libraries. In cygwin this is provided by
 > the libcygwin.
 > 

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