Making an application against different system libraries

davidkline · 11-01-2005, 11:30 AM

Hello, I'm new to Linux development and have a question about building an application on one machine that is intended to run on another.

I would like to build an application that uses a set of system libraries that are in a directory other than /lib or /usr/lib. It's similar to a cross compiling mechanism, except both host and target are linux machines (x86) with different versions of Linux. I did try and set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH in one of the configuration files, but I don't think it worked because when I used ldd on the image, the system files that displayed were from /usr/lib and /lib and not from the paths I specified in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Preferably, I would like to change this during the invocation of make. What would you suggest?

Please advise, thank you in advance, any help is appreciated,

GrueMaster · 11-01-2005, 01:08 PM

If you really need an application to use a specific set of libraries instead of the shared libraries on a different system, you should either build the application with static libraries, or store the libraries with the program and launch it with a shell wrapper script. Here's an example of how Neverwinter Nights runs on Linux with their own copy of SDL:

Quote:

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/local/games/nwn
# This script runs Neverwinter Nights from the current directory

export SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE=0
export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0

# If you do not wish to use the SDL library included in the package, remove
# ./lib from LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib:./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_PRELOAD=./nwmovies.so

./nwmain $@

Either method will work.