libPNG not found

[tcFan]

Hello,

please advise on the following problem:

Compiled an app with SDL2 but when running it, libpng.so.3 wasn't there.

- Tried all versions provided, including the old ones. (16, 15, 12)
- Tried symlinking a manually created libpng.so.3, to point to libpng16.so.
- Research suggests 2 possible solutions:
  1) if I were using a 64 bit version to run a 32 bit code (which I'm not), then install the 32 bit;
  2) I ought to install libpng3, which isn't in the repo so will try manually downloading it next.

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Regards.

[Juanito]

What architecture of tinycore are you using (x86, x86_64, armv6, armv7) and what version?

[tcFan]

hi

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$ uname -a
Linux box 4.8.17-tinycore #2017 SMP Sun Mar 5 15:49:22 UTC 2017 i686 GNU/Linux
the version I think is 8.0? couple releases back.. how do I confirm?

Tested a hypothesis that the experiments with different PNG versions could be the culprit, by checking ldd on the executable and, sure enough, it was linking to libpng12.. I rebooted and tried loading only 16 and it is now linking to that but still same complaint (libpng, png-bin and dev, are all loaded).

As an aside, though I don't think this is causing any problems (yet) is ldd now suggests a similar problem with SDL2, since it is linking to sdl1.2. However I cannot resolve this the same way, because the program needs SDL_Image, which is bundled together with all the other ones in SDL1.2.

[coreplayer2]

hi

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$ uname -a
Linux box 4.8.17-tinycore #2017 SMP Sun Mar 5 15:49:22 UTC 2017 i686 GNU/Linux
the version I think is 8.0? couple releases back.. how do I confirm?

Enter at the terminal

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version

[Juanito]

However I cannot resolve this the same way, because the program needs SDL_Image, which is bundled together with all the other ones in SDL1.2.

You can compile SDL_Image 2.0 for x86 or use the sdl2_image extension in x86_64.

Which sdl app are you trying to compile?

[Juanito]

sdl2_image posted to x86 repo