[Rivet] HepMC static

[Lars Sonnenschein]

Hello James
I took the HepMC-2.02.00 tar ball from the HepMC download web page:
http://lcgapp.cern.ch/project/simu/HepMC/download/
and it does produce shared (*.so) libraries

where did you take your HepMC distribution from?

	Lars



On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, James Monk wrote:

> Hi Riveteers,
> 
> The version of HepMC that we are distributing at Cedar only builds a  
> static library on OS X, which is obviously going to cause some  
> problems for RivetGun dynamic loading.  I've modified the HepMC build  
> script to make a dynamic library as well and everything seems to be  
> fine (once again, only OS X >= v3). I'll put that version of HepMC in  
> the Cedar downloads area (still the same version 2.02.00), which you  
> will need to install if you want to run Rivet on OS X (is anyone else  
> using it?).  Nothing changes on Linux, obviously.  Should I notify  
> the HepMC developers that they need to make this change in all future  
> releases, or do we make the release anyway?
> 
> I also found out that the  libAGILe*Mod.so files that RivetGun builds  
> are not useful (get a bus error when trying to dlopen them).  The  
> solution to this was to build them as dylibs like everything else by  
> removing the -module linker flag and then they seem to work.  I'll  
> commit a change for this shortly and hopefully that will be the end  
> of this .dylib/.so saga.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> James
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