dfmatt has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

I am trying to compile a perl script using ActiveState's PerlApp, and use the created binary on linux.

My script makes use of BerkeleyDB so I need to include that module.

I compiled on debian and the app ran fine on that (and on ubuntu) but when I tested it on suse it complained that: 

Can't load 'auto/BerkeleyDB/BerkeleyDB.so' for module BerkeleyDB: auto
+/BerkeleyDB/BerkeleyDB.so: cannot open shared object file: No such fi
+le or directory at /</usr/share/myapp/myapp.bin>DynaLoader.pm line 21
+7.
 at perlapp line 810
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at yams.pl line 7.

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I have tried specifying the --bind option which ActiveState suggest to use when including a library, but this doesn't change the issue.

Without BerkeleyDB the app works fine on all linux platforms.

Also, BerkeleyDB.so is included in the tmp/pdk-root/ directory that PerlApp creates when it runs which also holds libperl.so

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

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Re: Compile with PerlApp for linux and include BerkeleyDB.so
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 24, 2009 at 13:41 UTC
    To see extra files, try 
    use BerkeleyDB;
for my $so( @DynaLoader::dl_shared_objects ){
  print "$so\n";
  print `ldd $so\n`;
}

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      Thank you for the help.
      I have run that command and it returned this: 
      /opt/ActivePerl-5.10/lib/auto/IO/IO.so
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7f3b000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7dcd000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f3c000)
/opt/ActivePerl-5.10/lib/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.so
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7f94000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e27000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f95000)
/opt/ActivePerl-5.10/site/lib/auto/BerkeleyDB/BerkeleyDB.so
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7fa7000)
    libdb-4.6.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.6.so (0xb7e21000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7cba000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7ca0000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fa8000)

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      IO.so and Fcntl.so are both included in the /tmp/pdk-root folder along with BerkeleyDB.so (PerlApp adds them automatically) and the BerkeleyDB.so that it lists is the one I have tried adding manually using --bind.
      Was there something else this was supposed to tell me?
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