From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-05-31T06:05:04+09:00
Subject: FXRuby running problems

Hi.

Why is installing Fox and FXRuby always so painful? :-/

I built and installed Fox 1.0.11 myself; it lives in /usr/lib:

/usr/lib/libFOX-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libFOX-1.0.so.0.0.11

All of the example apps run with no errors.

I built and installed FXRuby 1.0.10 as well.  Other than the regular Ruby 
header problems, it gave me no errors.  However, any attempt at using an 
FXRuby app results in:

browser.rb:3:in `require': 
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/i586-linux-gnu/fox.so: undefined symbol: 
_10FXColorBar.metaClass - /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/i586-linux-gnu/fox.so 
(LoadError)

Is FXRuby 1.0.10 incompatible with Fox 1.0.11?

I have no other versions of Fox or FXRuby installed; all of the fox headers 
I can find belong to the 1.0.11 release, as well as all of the libs.

It seems that most of the problems that I have with Fox and FXRuby is a 
result of some incompatiblities in the library versions.  API 
incompatibilites between /minor/ revisions seems rather... extreme.  If I 
am seeing a version incompatability, why does FXRuby compile at all?

Is there something else going on here that I'm missing?  I wouldn't be 
surprised, but I'd like to know.


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