Hi, I'm currently developing an X11 app and would like to use GTK only for the file chooser dialog. The rest is done entirely in X11. However, the GTK support shall be optional. If GTK is there, then my app will use the GTK file chooser. If GTK is not there, I'll simply ask for a file name using a fgets() on stdin :-) Now to my question: Because I want my app to run even if GTK is not present, I can't link against the GTK libs. Instead, I have to use dlopen() and manually read the function pointers of the functions I need using dlsym(). This all works fine so far, except one thing: There are name discrepancies across the different distros. For example, comparing openSUSE and Ubuntu: openSUSE .so names: 1) libgtk-x11-2.0.so 2) libglib-2.0.so 3) libgobject-2.0.so Ubuntu .so names: 1) libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 2) libglibmm-2.4.so.1 !!! 3) libgobject-2.0.so.0 Especially striking is that Ubuntu doesn't have a libglib-XXX.so at all, but only a libglibmm-XXX.so! So what would be the best strategy to make my app work even with those diverging *.so names? I guess the only way would be to manually scan the libs in /usr/lib/ and compare against the patterns: libgtk-x11-*.so.* libglib-*.so.* libglibmm-*.so.* libgobject-*.so.* And then choose an appropriate .so for dlopen(). Or does anybody have a better solution? Thanks, Andreas _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
