Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
IDL VERSION 5.5 Linux Red Hat 7.3 (linux x86) linux kernel-version 2.4.18 Installation Numbers :5341-1 10244 UBC/TRIUMF PET PROGRAM I am having trouble calling an external c program from linux. We currently have a program that runs on an old solaris machine that I am trying to update so that it will work on the current version of linux. Within the main code their is the command CALL_EXTERNAL wich does this. stat = CALL_EXTERNAL('cti_matrix_io.so', 'read_cti_matrix', file1, fr, pl, gate, data, bed, image1) this piece of code calls the sparc dynamically linked executable on the old solaris machine. For the linux machine I have had an extremely tuff time trying to find any information on the subject and have tried many things without any success. I compile the c code with gcc version 2.96 using the command. gcc -fPIC -g -c cti_matrix_io.c I then link the file using; gcc -shared -o cti_matrix_io.so cti_matrix_io.o -lc which creates the file cti_matrix_io.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped Now with these steps I don't get any compile errors or can't read the file cti_matrix_io.so errors when the program runs, but what I do get is: IDL> .com large % Compiled module: MAIN_EVENT. % Compiled module: WIDGET. % Compiled module: GAUSSFUNC. % Compiled module: DISPLAY_MAIN_HEADER. % Compiled module: DISPLAY_IMAGE_SUBHEADER. % Compiled module: DISPLAY_SCAN_SUBHEADER. % Compiled module: CREATE_MAIN_HEADER. % Compiled module: CREATE_IMAGE_SUBHEADER. % Compiled module: CREATE_SCAN_SUBHEADER. % Compiled module: START. % Compiled module: RUN_PROGRAM. IDL> start % Compiled module: XMANAGER. % Compiled module: LOADCT. % Compiled module: FILEPATH. % Compiled module: PATH_SEP. % LOADCT: Loading table Rainbow18 [3]+ Done emacs large.pro Segmentation fault and the program crashes. I've tried to place error statement within the c code but it doesn't seem as thought the program even enters the actual file. Any help on the subject would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jeff Englehart