Helmut Jarausch schrieb: > Thomas Heller wrote: >> Helmut Jarausch schrieb: >>> Hi, >>> >>> how can I specify the paths to be searched for a dynamic library >>> to be loaded by ctypes' CDLL class on a Linux system. >>> >>> Do I have to set os.environment['LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] ? >>> >> >> ctypes passes the argument given to CDLL(path) straight to >> the dlopen(3) call, so your system documentation should tell you. >> > > Thanks, > > but then it's difficult to use CDLL. Setting > os.environ['LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] within the script which > calls CDLL is too late. > What other methods are possible rather than put an explicit > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=... > before running the script, if I don't want to put the dynamic > library into a standard system library.
I guess you can also use an absolute pathname (but the dlopen(3) manpage should tell you more. I'm not too familiar with linux). Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
