Dear Allin,
first of all thanks for implementing the libsvm program into gretl!
I just tried to test it on my xubuntu 17.04 linux machine. I used the
shell script build.sh to install the libsvm libraries. It ran through
without any issues. The following directories and files were set up:
/usr/local/include/libsvm/svm.h
/usr/local/lib/libsvm.so
/usr/local/lib/libsvm.so.2
/usr/local/lib/gretl-gtk2/svm.la
/usr/local/lib/gretl-gtk2/svm.so
/usr/local/bin/svm-predict
/usr/local/bin/svm-train
/usr/local/bin/svm-scale
After running the shell script, I recompiled gretl using the
--with-libsvm option. However, I obtain the following error message when
running your first example script "Listing 1"
<output>
Failed to load plugin: /usr/local/lib/gretl-gtk2/svm.so
Couldn't load plugin function
Error executing script: halting
series svmpred = svm(L, parms)
</output>
even though the smv.so file is in the directory.
Best,
Artur