[SDL] Dynamic loading on UNIX

[Scott Stone]

On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Sam Lantinga wrote:

> > Looks like SDL_Init looks for libSDLx11.so.0.9,
> > but it does not look into the directories that are in
> > my LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> > Don't you think it should ?
> 
> It should, and does on my system.
> 
> > i.e., if I put libSDLx11.so.0.9 in /usr/local/lib and
> > set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to contain /usr/local/lib, I think
> > it should work.
> 
> You might look in /etc/ld.so.conf to see if /usr/local/lib is there.
> SDL uses the dlopen API to dynamically load the library, and that 
> should use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH... unless the binary is set-uid root,
> in which case it will only use the built-in and system library paths.

dlopen is cool... from the man page..:

If filename is  not  an
       absolute  path  (i.e., it does not begin with a "/"), then
       the file is searched for in the following locations:

              A colon-separated list of directories in the user's
              LD_LIBRARY path environment variable.

              The     list     of    libraries    specified    in
              /etc/ld.so.cache.

              /usr/lib, followed by /lib.


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Scott M. Stone <sstone at pht.com, sstone at pht.co.jp>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)