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Asked: 2013-05-07 07:48:36 +0800 CST

Static linking to a library

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I'm trying to run a pre-compiled program from

http://cherrypit.princeton.edu/donev/Packing/PackLSD/Instructions.html

The pages states that:

The executables only link in standard (OpenGL, libtiff, libjpeg, etc.) Linux libraries, and link openglut statically, which may cause failures on some systems. The programs are compiled at medium optimization, for a generic IA32 processor, on a Red Hat EL4 system. They should run on Red Hat (>=9) and Fedora (>=3) systems just fine, and hopefully other similar distributions as well.

A standard Ubuntu 12.10 distribution is unable to run the program with

./PackLSD.poly.static.x: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This suggests that I should install the dev versions of libtiff, but neither 

sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev
sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev

seem to help. Am I out of luck getting this program to work without help from the author?

Edit: As requested. The output to sudo dpkg -L libtiff4 libtiff5

/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.4.3.6
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libtiff4
/usr/share/doc/libtiff4/README
/usr/share/doc/libtiff4/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libtiff4/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/libtiff4/copyright
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/libtiff4
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.4

/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5.1.0
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libtiff5
/usr/share/doc/libtiff5/README
/usr/share/doc/libtiff5/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libtiff5/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libtiff5/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/libtiff5/copyright
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/libtiff5
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5
12.10

1 Answers

  1. You need the library, not the source I believe.

    Please do this

    sudo apt-get install libtiff4 libtiff5

    EDIT:

    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.4.3.6 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3

    This should fix your problem

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