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Re: Make program find its dll:s


Quoting Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>:

Hi TomÃs and thanks for the quick reply. I tried setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH using $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/dll-files (and then
checking with
$ echo LD_LIBRARY_PATH that it "stuck"), but the process still cannot
find the DLL files. I am starting the process with strace so I am sure
this is the problem, not something else. I guess I could temporarily
modify the PATH but I'm interested in alternatives.


Although this is nothing specific to Cygwin: If you want to make the variable value available to processes which are executed subsequently, you need to export the variable, not just set it, as in:


export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/dll-files

Alternatively, set the variable in the command line like this:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/dll-files foo

assuming that "foo" is the command to start the app which requires the dll.

regards,
Markus

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