What format of .so is valid?

Developers Ruby API
#1

I created a .so on Linux and tried to load it in my plugin like this:

lib = Fiddle.dlopen(File.join(dir, "libfoo.so"))

But I got this error:

Fiddle::DLError: Exec format error

Then I tried to require it as:

require "libfoo"

Got another error:

LoadError: 193: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.

How can I make a valid .so?

#2

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#3

Ignoring cross-compiling, you would need to compile your *.so file on Windows and/or macOS.

On Windows, you could compile it with Visual Studio msvc, or it might work compiling with MSYS2 ucrt.

Note that the main Ruby dll naming is not normal, as it matches a Ruby MSYS2 MINGW64 build.

If you’re interested, I think I have a Ruby 2.7 ucrt build on GitHub that matches the dll naming…