Ok thanks! 

Yes I will have a look at Dierckx.jl, see if I can figure out how it does 
it.

Le jeudi 23 juin 2016 13:00:57 UTC+10, Tony Kelman a écrit :
>
> You have a few options. You can save the location of the library to a 
> module-level const variable and use that in your ccall's, or use BinDeps to 
> write the path of the found library (if any) to a generated file. I believe 
> Dierckx.jl is an example of using the former, where the library just gets 
> built or extracted to a known relative path w.r.t. the src of the package.
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 10:22:08 PM UTC-4, Charles Ll wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I use a Fortran code in my package Spectra.jl, it is working really 
>> nicely. However, I still use the absolute library path in ccall. From 
>> discussion in the Gitter, I know that I could use eval, but my ccall is in 
>> a function so as eval works on global variables, it seems not appropriate...
>>
>> So my question is, how can we properly provide the shared library path to 
>> the ccall function, with keeping in mind that this process needs some 
>> flexibility, required for instance by the installation of the package on 
>> different OS? This seems particularly important when trying to distribute 
>> my package. For now, users have to change manually the path in the 
>> installed package, which seems a bad situation...
>>
>> I'm sure that this has already done for Fortran library such as the 
>> LAPACK library for instance, but despite having looked at the Github for 
>> the LAPACK wrapper, I don't understand how this is implemented...
>>
>> So if you have any insides, this will be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Best,
>> Charles.
>>
>>
>>

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