9 Apr
2003
9 Apr
'03
1:45 p.m.
Thanks for your reply, Erik.
I see now that there is some info about using pkg-config in the
documentation, but I hadn't understood its significance, being fairly
new to Linux development.
What I have is a simple test app that just opens an audio file and
prints out the properties.
I'm compiling it with
gcc test.c -o test `pkg-config --cflags --libs sndfile`
But I always get the result
./test: error while loading shared libraries: libsndfile.so.1: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory.
The headers and libraries referenced by pkg-config all seem to be in the
right place.
as it would have indicated during the install of libsndfile, you need
to either:
set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include wherever the library is located OR
edit /etc/ld.so.config to contain the directory where the library
is located, and then run ldconfig (as root)
shared libraries are found by using a combination of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
and the ld.so.config file. if a library cannot be found that way
(though strictly, there are a couple of other (bad) options), then you
get the error you've encountered.
--p