[PD-dev] pd-extended build system questions

[carmen]

On Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 12:03:14AM +0100, Georg Holzmann wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
> >>So is there a way how the externals can find the shared library, whithout copying it into a global library path like /usr/lib/ ?
> 
> It seems that the only way is, to add the /full/path/to/installed/library/directory to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable before starting pd ...
> 
> >I think you can link to it using a relative path, or even better, just the same dir, i.e. "."  Mac OS X has handy tools for managing library paths (otool -L and install_name_tool), I don't know about 
> >other platforms.
> 
> "." does not work on linux - I would have to install the library first and then link it to the full path where I have it installed.
> 
> 
> So it seems that the only way is to use dlopen() - where I have to modify the source (and handle it seperate for all platforms in the source file ...).
> I think it's not worth to do that for PDContainer - but we can continue to think about it if we can also use it for other externals ;)

how about modifying s_loader to also check in system paths for externals.. then you could reuse the same method regardless of whether its external to PD, or external to PD externals..

> 
> LG
> Georg
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