HDK plugin loading troubleshooting

[stkeg]

i have a hdk plugin that compiles, but doesn't load. i have HOUDINI_DSO_ERROR=2 set.

 

anyone have any thoughts or suggestions for things i can check for troubleshooting?

[edward]

So you're saying that you don't see your plugin being loaded from the print out of HOUDINI_DSO_ERROR=2? Then you've probably put it in a place that Houdini doesn't look for plugins.

[stkeg]

xubuntu 12.04 LTS

 

plugin installed to:

/home/username/houdini12.5/dso

 

i have other dependencies and have put them in the usual place (/usr/include and /usr/lib) and ran ldconfig.

 

my dependencies are shared.

 

ubuntu 12.04 comes with gcc 4.6. i wanted to match houdini 12.5 gcc4.4 so i have both compilers installed via sudo update-alternatives --config gcc (which is pretty handy and easy compared to manually trying to have 2 gcc versions installed)

 

when i compile with 4.4, it doesn't load. when i compile with 4.6 the plugin loads. not exactly sure why 4.6 works over 4.4. maybe somethings break when using sudo update-alternatives --config gcc?

Edited September 3, 2014 by stkeg

[edward]

It also depends on the glibc version that was used to build your particular Houdini installation. Depending the various distros, it might be that your gcc 4.4 installation is using an older glibc version. Or, that your other dependencies require gcc 4.6 to work in the first place.