Mail-It doesn't work (undefined symbol)

[rossi]

Mail-It 3.0 (BeOS R5) doesn't work. Undefined symbol:

rossi@wayreth home> /boot/apps/BeatWare/Mail-It/Mail-It
runtime_loader: elf_resolve_symbol: could not resolve symbol 'DS_EventReceived__16BWDataSubscriberUl'
resolve symbol "DS_EventReceived__16BWDataSubscriberUl" returned: -2147478780
runtime_loader: troubles relocating: 0x80001304 (image: libfreestyle.so)
rossi@wayreth home> 

libfreestyle.so is correctly installed in home/config/libs

Package has been installed using the PackageInstaller

[Coldfirex]

Unable to find a working download link. Is this still an issue in newer revisions?

[waddlesplash]

Mail-It is available on HaikuWare ​here. I don't have my Haiku machine on ATM so I can't test it though.

[pulkomandy]

Still a problem in hrev48430.

Mail-It links against two libraries: libfreestyle.so and libbeatware.so. libfreestyle.so does not link to libbeatware.so, but uses symbols from it.

[bonefish]

One has to wonder how libfreestyle.so could even be linked, given that the BeOS gcc/binutils toolchain linked symbolically and didn't support undefined symbols. Hence it was assumed that searching the direct dependencies for unresolved symbols was sufficient for BeOS executables, which is ​how it is implemented ATM.

A solution would be to fall back to the regular symbol resolution, when the BeOS style resolution fails. This also allows us to split BeOS libraries without breaking BeOS apps that linked against them.