(For those who don't know, Pidgin is the new name of the Gaim IM client, and libpurple the new name of the underlying libgaim library)

I'm on a FC 6 box, and I'm getting the following error when use'ing the Purple module:

[~]$ perl -e'use Purple;'
Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/a
+uto/Purple/Purple.so' for module Purple: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5
+.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Purple/Purple.so: undefined symbol:
+ g_str_hash at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/XSLoader.
+pm line 70.
 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Purple.pm
+ line 52
Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

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I've searched Google and the Pidgin wiki, but haven't found any solution. g_str_hash is defined in /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/ghash.h, which I assume is properly found since the compilation does succeed.

An ldd on Purple.so does not show glib2 in the list of libraries though. Should it show up or is the XS loader smart enough to find out what libraries to load some other way?

I tried explicitly linking against the library by adding a -lglib-2.0 to the final line of the .so creation. The resulting so file does show the dependency on glib2 then, but trying to load shows a different error:

[~]$ perl -e'use Purple;'
perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux
+-thread-multi/auto/Purple/Purple.so: undefined symbol: purple_perl_ca
+llXS

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which to me seems to suggest linking in the library this way is not the correct thing to do.

If anything has any insight or suggestions on how to solve this, I'm all ears.

In reply to Purple/Pidgin perl plugin load error by Crackers2

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