Libtool is a Gnu package which allows to handle shared or dynamic libraries, in a transparent way under most of 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.MacOS installation

sudo port libtool

4.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