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Installing libwebsocket.so shared library

I am having problems getting the libwebsockets.so shared library on a 32 bit system.I installed it from the git source on a 64-bit ubuntu without any problem.

I tried to do the same on a 32-bit ubuntu 14.04 VM and 32 bit ubuntu lucid chroot. It failed to generate ".so" file in both the cases.

I even tried installing it via the package "libwebsockets-dev" . The package just installed the header files but ".so" file was still missing.

How can the "libwebsocket.so" be generated through installation ?

Solution

  • After trying to install the websockets library on different 32 bit machines with different processor architectures, I thought of installing the libwebsockets-dev from the debian source.

    dpkg -i <--the libwebsocket package-->

    showed that there was a missing dependency libwebsockets3. This was not shown when compiled from the git source.

    Then I installed the missing dependency libwebsockets3 and then installed the libwebsockets-dev package.Now the "libwebsockets.so" shared library is generated.