Libtool is a Gnu package which allows to handle shared or dynamic libraries, in a transparent way under most of (if not all) the platforms. Related to this distribution, we need development tools for dynamic modules and in particular:

• the header file ltdl.h,
• the library libltdl.

1.Source installation

It can be downloaded and installed from the url http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html and installed with the following instructions:

./configure && make && make install

A version greater than 1.5.24 should be used.

2.Rpm installation

sudo yum install libtool-ltdl-devel

3.Debian installation

See the source installation, since a modified and non-compatible version of Libtool is available in the standard Ubuntu and Debian dsitributions.

4.MacOS installation

sudo port libtool

5.Mingw installation

MinGW can be obtained from Sourceforge. You can also download the sources from the SVN server and compile them as follows:

svn checkout http://dlfcn-win32.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dlfcn-win32-read-only

cd dlfcn-win32-read-only;make