On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello Wesley, > > * Wesley Smith wrote on Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 02:40:53PM CEST: >> I'm trying to use autotools to compile shared object Lua modules. The >> way these modules are named differs from the typical .so conventions >> because they're not actually libs one links against but are instead >> loaded by Lua itself. For example, a Lua module binding OpenGL would >> look like opengl.so instead of libopengl.so. > > Is that true for all systems, even those where the usual shared library > extension is different, e.g., .sl on HP-UX systems, .dll on w32 ones, > etc.?
On Windows, it's opengl.dll. On OSX it's opengl.so as well. Not sure about the others. > > You can avoid warnings about the 'lib' prefix by making these things > modules instead of libraries, as in > lib_LTLIBRARIES = opengl.la > opengl_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version Thank you!! >> INCLUDES = -I$(srcdir)/include -I/usr/include/lua5.1 -I/usr/include/GL > > This is ok, but INCLUDES is an old name; use AM_CPPFLAGS instead. Where is this documented? I've been looking here: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html . There's not much in the way of what the various Makefile.am conventions are on this page. Is there a better reference? Your suggestions were spot on. Thanks very much! wes
