Bill Spotz wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to tell an executing python script where to look for > dynamically-loaded libraries? > > My situation is that that I am developing python wrappers for a large > software project. I create python wrappers with swig, and those > extension modules link against dynamic libraries from the project. I > have many test scripts that I would like to be able to run *prior* to > installing these libraries into a standard location. > > I have tried altering the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH > environment variables, both by direct assignment of os.environ and by > calling os.putenv(), but neither results in python being able to find > my dynamic libraries.
Those environment variables need to be set before the python executable starts. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
