Meador Inge added the comment:
On Linux gcc and ld are used to implement 'find_library' and 'dlopen' is used
to implement 'CDLL'. ld searches /usr/local/lib. 'dlopen' might not if the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH isn't set up to do so. For example:
[meadori@li589-207 cpython]$ ls /usr/local/lib
libfoo.so libfoo.so.1 libfoo.so.1.0 linode
[meadori@li589-207 cpython]$ ./python
Python 3.4.0a0 (default:d6213012d87b, Jul 23 2013, 01:00:24)
[GCC 4.7.2 20120921 (Red Hat 4.7.2-2)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from ctypes import *
>>> import ctypes.util
>>> ctypes.util.find_library('foo')
'libfoo.so.1'
>>> CDLL(_)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/meadori/src/cpython/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py", line 351, in __init__
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)OSError: libfoo.so.1: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
>>> quit()
[meadori@li589-207 cpython]$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
[meadori@li589-207 cpython]$ export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
[meadori@li589-207 cpython]$ ./python
Python 3.4.0a0 (default:d6213012d87b, Jul 23 2013, 01:00:24)
[GCC 4.7.2 20120921 (Red Hat 4.7.2-2)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from ctypes import *
>>> import ctypes.util
>>> ctypes.util.find_library('foo')
'libfoo.so.1'
>>> CDLL(_)
<CDLL 'libfoo.so.1', handle 28e4b50 at 7f31e062b608>
I am OK with this behavior in ctypes since it matches the system behavior with
'gcc' and 'dlopen'. So, I would fixup LD_LIBRARY_PATH or /etc/ld.so.conf if
you want /usr/local/lib to be searched at load time.
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nosy: +meador.inge
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