[issue18502] CDLL does not use same paths as util.find_library

2013-07-22 Thread Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson added the comment: Should the docs then be changed for find_library to inform that "It is not guaranteed that a found library can be opened" (at least for linux)? Or would a feature request for full paths from find_library for linux be more appropriate? It seems hac

[issue18502] CDLL does not use same paths as util.find_library

2013-07-18 Thread Steven Johnson
New submission from Steven Johnson: CDLL does not use the same paths as find_library and thus you can *find* a library, but you can't necessarily use it. In my case, I had SDL2 in /usr/local/lib. find_library correctly gets the name, but does not return the path. CDLL apparently doe