Greetings,

I am working on a website where I have multiple CGI modules (compiled C++). I want to put most of the code in a ".so" (a.k.a DLL, dynamic linked library, shared library, or shared object) file.

It seems that LINUX regulates where these must be placed. Since I am only renting a domain name and disk space on someone else's server (it is a www website) for my website, I do not have root etc. permissions obviously.

So the rub is that .so files are generally placed in "/usr/lib" or similar and I do not have access. The only applications that will use my .so libraries are my CGI binaries.

The location is no problem on my own machine where I can place the shared library .so files where I want. But on a webserver it is a problem.

Is this the LINUX DLL hell kinda like the windows DLL hell? Any comments?

RKW

You might be able to point LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the new libs, but I have no idea if this can be applied to cgi.

Hey mikshaw,

Thanks. I can do that on my local machine ... I will mention that to the sysop or webadmin at the site to see what they think ...

RKW

Still not solved,

The admin added the cgi-bin dir to ld.so.config but I am not sure if he reran ldconfig afterwards.

On my local machine I have some success ... but not yet on the web server.