RE: Path for Linux .so fies
Thanks Irv!
It's so nice to ask a question and get a quick answer!
I'll take a look at the environment variable, as suggested.
BTW, I'm also using your GTK library as well...nice work!
Jonas
eugtk at yahoo.com wrote:
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> --- Jonas Temple <jtemple at yhti.net> wrote:
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> > 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
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