It is even more likely that the Csound API library is older than the
plugin. The layout of the function pointers in CSOUND has changed
frequently while Csound 5 was beta, and libstdutil probably calls the
wrong functions, resulting in the error message.
In any case, the problem is almost surely caused by old files, which
should all be removed.

On Monday 13 February 2006 18:44, Victor Lazzarini wrote:

> The problem is that the plugin libs have changed, so there is a
> conflict between your old plugins and the new ones. libstdutil is a
> new one. Your old ones need deleting, not this one. My suggestion
> is that you delete everything and do a clean build.
> 
> Victor
> 
> At 17:36 13/02/2006, you wrote:
> 
> >Building Csound5 from source installs a broken plugin
> >/usr/lib/csound/plugins/libstdutil.so .  The csound executable dies
> >instantly with "Error in pre-initialisation function of module
> >'libstdutil.so'".  If I delete that plugin it runs OK (at least on a
> >simple test CSD file).
> >
> >Strangely, I've been successfully running a Csound I updated from CVS
> >late last year.  That version doesn't install this plugin.
> >
> >It can't be right that have to delete this file to get Csound to run,
> >so how do I fix this?  System details as follows: