tuomasjjrasanen/python-uinput

Compilation Error in Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit

cgwennap opened this issue · 5 comments

cgwennap commented

When running the command python setup.py build, compiler returns an error, stating "Cannot open shared object file libudev.so".

The problem appears to be the caused by the replacement of libudev.so with libudev.so.0 (older version with deprecated interface which may not exist in current libudev builds) and libudev.so.1 (new version being supported) as part of its merge into systemd.

This error was hotfixed by replacing "libudev.so" in setup.py with "libudev.so.1", but requires further testing to determine full cross-compatibility.

refi64 commented

Can't ctypes.util.find_library be used to do this portably?

cgwennap commented

Possibly, if it's set up to do so, which it isn't currently?

imarcelolz commented

I found the same problem in Ubuntu 10.15.
But that was easily solved with the following command:

sudo apt-get install libudev-dev

I hope this helps!

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cgwennap commented

Yep, confirmed on Ubuntu 16, thanks!

tuomasjjrasanen commented

Thanks for reporting and thanks for helping each other when I was gone :).

I've made a new release, 0.11.1. This issue has been fixed there.