hello, im having a problem making a program work on my linux system, and im not sure what do next.

the program is 'xchm-1.3', a chm reader.

with these dependancies..

'chmlib-0.37.4'
'wxWidgets-2.6.2'

i built the 3 programs from source.

i started with 'chmlib', and that seems to have compiled ok.

i then built 'wxWidgets' (configured for GTK install) which also compiled ok, but which then gave me this message 'on certain platforms (eg linux) you'll now have to run ldconfig if you installed a shared library and also modify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or equivalent) enviroment variable.' , im not sure how to do this.

i then compiled 'xchm', and tried to run the program by typing 'xchm' from a commandline, but i get this error message 'xchm : error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk2_xrc-2.6.so.0 : cannot open shared object file :no such file or directory.'

i see that this is related to the wxWidgets files, but im not sure how to resolve the problem.

You need to add the path to the wxWidgets Library to /etc/ld.so.conf. Normally, if you installed from a package the libs would be in /usr/lib, but if since you installed from source, they may be elsewhere. Check /usr/local/lib for instance...

Make sure the path to the libs is in /etc/ld.so.conf, then run ldconfig thusly (as root):
simple. This will add the directories in ld.so.conf to the cache that is searched for shared libraries.

HTH...

the libraries were in /usr/local/lib, and i added that path to /etc/ld.so.conf, and now i can view .chm files, thanks bulliver