X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <20081118124859.zfzlhv3wisw4sg88@webmail.df.eu> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:48:59 +0100 From: Markus Hoenicka To: Eric Lilja Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Make program find its dll:s References: <20081118112012.GB26249@tomas> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: domainFACTORY X-Df-WSender: 472582 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id mAIBnuuS021663 Quoting Eric Lilja : > Hi Tomás 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 -- Markus Hoenicka markus.hoenicka@cats.de (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/