Finding dynamic libraries
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Sep 15 11:24:19 EDT 2006
Bill Spotz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to tell an executing python script where to look for
> dynamically-loaded libraries?
>
> My situation is that that I am developing python wrappers for a large
> software project. I create python wrappers with swig, and those
> extension modules link against dynamic libraries from the project. I
> have many test scripts that I would like to be able to run *prior* to
> installing these libraries into a standard location.
>
> I have tried altering the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
> environment variables, both by direct assignment of os.environ and by
> calling os.putenv(), but neither results in python being able to find
> my dynamic libraries.
Those environment variables need to be set before the python executable starts.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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