[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) writes: | Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | How do i compile both static and non static librarys under C (.a and .so) | | and how do i install them on the system so they can be found by the linker | | or programs. | | You just put them in a directory somewhere. Generally /usr/local/lib | is a good location if you're installing them yourself. | | Usually it's best to let the developers specify the path explicitly | for non-standard libraries. They can do this with, on most compilers, | "-L/usr/local/lib -lfoo". [snip]
Sorry to followup to my own post, but I just thought of another important point. If you have pre-existing executables that are linked against a shared library you'll need to add the directory where you installed the shared libraries to /etc/ld.so.conf. For example, add the line /usr/local/lib if you put lib*.so files in /usr/local/lib. Or, and this, to me, would be the preferred solution. Have the users that want to run the executable add the path to their LD_LIBRARY_PATH. So, for example, in their ~/.profile have them add: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib See "man ld.so" for further information. Gary
