Built application can't find library file...

[elmerfud]

I am building an application that uses libftd2xx.so on Fedora 8.

My build process is similar to the one outlined here:
http://moteprime.org/article.php?id=27

Everything works fine except when I go to run my application, I get the following:

$src/openocd
$src/openocd: error while loading shared libraries: libftd2xx.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Yet:

$ ls -l /usr/lib/libftd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2007-12-19
23:30 /usr/lib/libftd2xx.so -> /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so.0

$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libftd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2007-12-19 23:27 /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so -> libftd2xx.so.0
-rwx------ 1 root root 319466 2007-12-19 22:22 /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so.0

Why can't my application find these library files ?

Thanks

[aleph]

Originally Posted by elmerfud

-rwx------ 1 root root 319466 2007-12-19 22:22 /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so.0

Why can't my application find these library files ?

Thanks

you don't have read/execute privilege of the library. chmod it so you can load it.

[FriedChips]

yup looks like that will not work unless you are running your program as root. Try:

su
chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/libftd2.xx.so.0

[elmerfud]

I did test it running as root and it failed.
I think you are right that the execute bit needs to be set. Would that do it ?

[elmerfud]

Same problem, running as a regular user or as root.

# src/openocd
src/openocd: error while loading shared libraries: libftd2xx.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ src/openocd
src/openocd: error while loading shared libraries: libftd2xx.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

yet:
# ls -l /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 319466 2007-12-19 22:22 /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so.0

I also have:
# ls -l /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2007-12-19 23:27 /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so -> libftd2xx.so.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 319466 2007-12-19 22:22 /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so.0

and:
# ls -l /usr/lib/libftd2xx*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2007-12-19 23:30 /usr/lib/libftd2xx.so -> /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so.0

Is there a path variable that tells an application where to look for a lib file ?

[elmerfud]

I found the problem. The application is looking in /usr/lib.

I created a link (libftd2xx.so) in /usr/lib to the real lib file in /usr/local/lib.

The link needs to be named libftd2xx.so.0, not libftd2xx.so

BTW: the command to name the link libftd2xx.so came from the readme.dat included with the compiled source. It should have said libftd2xx.so.0

I also had to turn SELinux off to get this to run without an error. I'll look into that later.