Re: Gtk::BuilderError Invalid object type GtkSourceView

[Scott Talbert <swt techie net>]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2015, Stefan Salewski wrote:

> > Basically, GTK assumes that its libraries are loaded into the global
> > symbol namespace.  I'm guessing that Nim is probably loading them into
> > a
> > local namespace (RTLD_LOCAL) and thus when GtkBuilder tries to load
> > GtkSourceView, it can't find it.
>
> Interesting. I have to admit that I have currently no idea about global
> and local namespaces of C libraries. Have to ask google or the Nim
> developers tomorrow :-)
>
> Currently Nim compiles to C (can also compile to other targets as well,
> C++, JS and more, but C is the default.) Will investigate how it loads
> libraries.

You could check the code for where they call dlopen() and whether or not 
they pass the RTLD_GLOBAL flag.

Scott