]> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Yaron M. Minsky wrote: > Has anyone had any luck installing lacaml on RH 8.0? I've been trying to > install using the stock LAPACK, BLAS and F2C, and have been running into > trouble. First of all, RH 8.0 doesn't include libf2c.a --- it only > include libg2c, and then only the .so version, not the .a version. I > tried linking against the libg2c.a supplied in the g77-compat library, and > it seemed to work. But then when I tried actually using lacaml, I hit > this: [snip] > # #require "lacaml";; > Loading /usr/lib/ocaml/bigarray.cma > Loading /usr/lib/ocaml/site-lib/lacaml/lacaml.cma > The external function `lacaml_Sssqr_diff_wrapper_bc' is not available That's easily explained: Lacaml requires static linking of the C-libraries, because it has to fiddle around with objects contained in them, which isn't possible with shared libraries. Thus, you will have to build a custom toplevel that is (implicitly) linked against the modified static libraries: ocamlfind ocamlmktop -o mytop -package lacaml bigarray.cma lacaml.cma Executing this custom toplevel (it's _huge_!) and typing in your code should work without problems... Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners