OpenEuphoria

Re: Path for Linux .so fies

• Posted by eugtk at yahoo.com Sep 24, 2003
• 432 views

--- Jonas  Temple <jtemple at yhti.net> wrote:

> In Windows when you use open_dll() it searches the
> path for the .dll.  
> Obviously not so in Linux.  I had to specifically
> spell out the path to 
> the .so!  Is this just a difference between the two
> or am I missing 
> something?

You're missing something :)

Basically, it looks for the .so in /usr/lib, and 
then in /lib, so that's where the file should be put.
If you don't want to do that, you can set the
environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to where
the .so is located. 
Or, you can run ldconfig to set up links to .so files 
in other non-standard places.

Type 'man ld.so' and 'man ldconfig' to see how Linux 
handles these things.

Irv