Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Till Straumann <[email protected]> · Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:20:01 -0800

RTM
man ld.so
man ld
You have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when _running_, not when compiling
the 'example' application.
Under LINUX, in order to embed the library path into the executable, you
have to

1) either use the -rpath option to the linker

2) set LD_RUN_PATH when linking (note the difference: LD_RUN_PATH

is evaluated by the linker, LD_LIBRARY_PATH by the runtime linker,

i.e. when executing the linked application)
--->
 g++ <cflags etc.>  <objects> -L <library paths>
      -Wl,-rpath,$(INSTALLDIR)/lib/$(EPICS_HOST_ARCH) -l <libraries>

HTH
-- Till
Kevin M. Peterson wrote:

I am trying to run the ioc example from the R3.14.1 AppDevGuide
on a Redhat 8.0 machine.
I see no errors during the building of R3.14.1.
The commands I used to create the example app are the ones that
are shown in the AppDevGuide (the line continuation symbols are
only used here to keep the lines from becoming excessively long):
mkdir exampletop
cd exampletop
/net/snap-80gb/share1/epics/R3.14/base-3.14.1/bin/linux-x86/  \
    makeBaseApp.pl -t example example
/net/snap-80gb/share1/epics/R3.14/base-3.14.1/bin/linux-x86/  \
    makeBaseApp.pl -i -t example example
The last line prompts me to choose an architecture.  I choose the
only one available (linux-x86).
I then issue a make and the build completes without error.
I can then attempt to run the ioc example:
cd /net/snap-80gb/share1/epics/R3.14/exampletop/iocBoot/iocexample
...../../bin/linux-x86/example st.cmd
and I get the following error message:
...../../bin/linux-x86/example: error while loading shared libraries: \
    libiocsh.so: cannot open shared object file: \
    No such file or directory
I have verified that EPICS_HOST_ARCH has been set correctly.
I have also built base and the example app with and without
$(INSTALL_LOCATION)/lib/$(EPICS_HOST_ARCH) added to
my LD_LIBRARY_PATH env. variable.
I have a feeling there is something small that I am overlooking.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Kevin Peterson

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System