[SRILM User List] Python wrapper

[Andreas Stolcke]

Andre Mansikkaniemi wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm trying to compile a Python wrapper for SRILM as described in [1]. I
> run into problems when compiling the Python shared library module:
> g++ -shared srilm.o srilm_wrap.o -loolm -ldstruct -lmisc
> -L/home/ammansik/srilm-1.5.12/lib/i686-m64 -o _srilm.so
> I get the following error messages:
> /usr/bin/ld: /home/andre/srilm-1.5.12/lib/i686-m64/liboolm.a(Prob.o):
> relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when
> making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /home/andre/srilm-1.5.12/lib/i686-m64/liboolm.a: could not read symbols:
> Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> The system I'm using is x86_64 GNU/Linux.
> Any ideas how to solve this?
>   
PIC compilation should be the default in recent releases.
Run "make cleanest" , then rebuild and make sure -fPIC appears inn all 
compiler commands.  Make sure the PIC_FLAG variable is not modified in 
any in common/Makefile.machine.i686-m64 or Makefile.site.i686-m64 .

Andreas

> André
>
> [1] Nitin Madnani. Source Code: Querying and Serving N -gram Language
> Models with Python
>
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