PC/SC Lite and CardOS API

The PKCS#11 library libsiecap11.so shipped with CardOS API has been linked to the library libpcsclite.so.0.0.1 which belongs to PC/SC Lite 1.2.0. When the Linux runtime linker loads the PKCS#11 library it tries to resolve this dependency to libpcsclite.so.0 (only the libraries major version is evaluated). The attempt to resolve this dependency fails since PC/SC Lite 1.2.9betaX contains a later version of libpcsclite.so (libpcsclite.so.1.0.0).

This dependency problem can be worked around with the following steps:

• Search for the directory where libpcsclite.so.1.0.0 is installed on your system (usually /usr/local/lib or /usr/lib).
• Create a new symbolic link named libpcsclite.so.0 to libpcsclite.so.1.0.0 in that directory ( ln -s libpcsclite.so.1.0.0 libpcsclite.so.0). Running this ln command will usually require root privileges.

This information is given without any warranty. In tests at our side the solution appeared to work stable with PC/SC Lite 1.2.9 beta6.