[gambit-list] Illegal character

Joel J. Adamson adamsonj at email.unc.edu
Mon Jun 30 16:08:03 EDT 2008


"Jeff Read" <bitwize at gmail.com> writes:

> Joel,
>
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Joel J. Adamson <adamsonj at email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> It's as close to what's in the info file as I could get and include the
>> relevant linking information.  Here's the Makefile:
>>
>
> Okay, instead of calling it "genxic.o" you're going to want to call it
> "genxic.o1" or some other number for the 1.
>
> The Gambit loader checks the file extension to see if it's a dynamic
> library, and it appears to only recognize extensions which match the
> regex /\.o[1-9][0-9]*/ as such. Otherwise it attempts to load the file
> as a source file. That's why you're getting that funny error; it's
> treating your binary file as a .scm file. :)
>
> Beyond that, you don't want to give a dynamic library the .o
> extension; that's reserved for object files which haven't gone through
> the link phase yet.

Thanks!  EVerything you're saying makes sense...

Except that I originally called it "genxic.o1" and I got the same error
;)

I've tried it again and it works; on to the next error ;)

Did you notice anything else amiss with my compilation commands?

Thanks again,
Joel

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