From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Aug 25 11:35:11 1998
Subject: linking external library
From: Cyril Fischer <fischerc at itam dot cas dot cz>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:35:06 +0200

I would like to create an *.oct file containing call to the (large)
external library using a mkoctfile script:

mkoctfile  dsswp_wr.cc -limsl

mkoctfile  dsswp_wr.cc -L/home/Libr/imsl/imsl -limsl-stat

In the first case I  have linked against /usr/local/lib/libimsl.so
shared library,
in the later case against /home/Libr/imsl/imsl/libimsl-stat.a static
library.
The size of an oct-file produced was in the both cases the same  and the
run time errors were exactly identical::

octave:53> s=dsswp_wr(prd,fr,m);
octave: error in loading shared libraries
/home/msig/octave/dsswp_wr.oct: undefined symbol:
dsswp___FPiPdT0T1T0T0T1

What am I doing wrong?
Unfortunately, I cannot separate the subroutine dsswp_ out of the
library due to the huge number of dependencies.

Thank you,
Cyril