On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 08:36:44AM -0600, John Calcote wrote: > Bob, >> On linux, there is no such guarentee. So, I have come up with 2 >> solutions, and wonder if someone else has a better idea, or prefers one >> over the others. >> >> - Modify the automake to build the program as foo-bin, instead of foo >> on unix platforms. Then, install a script called foo, that sets the >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH and invokes foo-bin. >> This approach seems like a lot of modification to the autotools in >> order to get the tool to build with both static and dynamic version >> of wxwidgets. >> >> - Modify foo to know if it is using a shared wxwidgets library, and >> dlopen it if it is. I haven't tested this yet, and don't even know >> if it will work. > I recommend you put the library in the bin directory on mingw and in the > lib directory on other platforms. This is proper for both systems. What it > requires is an conditional section in your Makefile.am, checking for mingw > platform. The variable can be setup in your configure.ac script, and > exported using AM_CONDITIONAL.
If I put it in the lib directory on other platforms, on startup, how will the binary know where to find the .so? That's why I was asking about LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and creating a script.... Bob Rossi
