Re: Porting ViaVoice from Linux to OS X;
Re: Porting ViaVoice from Linux to OS X;
- Subject: Re: Porting ViaVoice from Linux to OS X;
- From: Clark Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:28:09 -0500
If all you have is a linux library (i.e. no source code), then you're
out of luck. "Porting" something without the source code is an
exercise in futility.
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:55:19 -0700, Madentec Matt Budd
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to port a text-to-speech engine (ViaVoice by IBM) from
> Linux to Mac OS X. I am given an libibmeci.so file, and try to
> compile/make a small sample program (that I got to correctly link and
> work on the Linux system) and get the following error:
>
> ld: /opt/IBM/ibmtts/lib/libibmeci.so bad magic number (not a Mach-O
> file)
>
> I am assuming that this is because the shared-object library (the .so
> file) is in ELF format where as OS X expects shared object libraries to
> be in Mach-O format (dylib?).
>
> I am wondering what I can do. I am only given the .so file in Linux
> format, and don't have the source to recompile it on OS X as a dylib.
> Is there anything I can do to convert this .so to a .dylib? Or is this
> something that IBM would have to recompile/support specifically for OS
> X. Also, I am trying to static linking at compile time, but possibly
> could look at performing dynamic loading at runtime if that would get
> this to work.
>
> - Matt
>
> P.S. - I've CCd the speech-dev list, in case anyone out there has had
> success/failure porting ViaVoice 6.7 onto OS X.
>
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