Shake plug-ins

[Anonymous]

Hey guys,

Here is an outline of the issues regarding Shake 4.1 and any plug-ins we want to use.

We are currently running Shake 4.1. on Linux

Most of the plug-ins we are using or want use are compiled for Shake 3.5.

Using the 3.5 compiled plug-ins do work, but will produce an error message upon launching Shake regarding a missing library. This library file has since been removed from 4.1, causing the error message that considers any rendering jobs as failed on our render farm.

What we need to find out is if there is a tool to re-compile any Shake 3.5 plug-ins for 4.*.

[bnw]

Unless you have the source code for the plugins, I can’t see any way of fixing that other than trying to copy the missing library from a Shake 3.5 install and hoping it might work. Which library is it, by the way?

[Bhagavath Singh]

This is what our tech says to me:

“For the case of that Nrmpg plugin, this is whats missing;

error: libnrzl_lx.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It is included in Shake 3.5.”

So what’s it all mean?

Any help greatly appreciated!

[Rafael Robayo]

Generally speaking, plugins built for one version of Shake won’t work in another. In fact, on linux, Shake 4.1 was built with a much newer version of the compiler than previous versions (sdk requires gcc 4.0.0 vs gcc 3.2.3(?) in older versions).

In this case, I think libnrzl was just a packaging up of libz, a compression library, because it wasn’t reliably available on various os’s in the past. But now it generally is and it’s not packaged in the shake distro.

You probably just need to remove it from the libs listed in the makefile when you build the plugin and use libz.so instead.

Matt.

Rafterman wrote:

This is what our tech says to me:

“For the case of that Nrmpg plugin, this is whats missing;

error: libnrzl_lx.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It is included in Shake 3.5.”

So what’s it all mean?

Any help greatly appreciated!

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