Sorry for the lack of information. I had actually run the full make,
then make install. When I tried to run make install again, the response
was that nothing needed to be done, as expected. The library was
actually installed in /usr/local/lib. Apparently it did not get on some
type of configuration list for the dynamic library loader. That is the
issue I am trying to solve.
Your suggestion of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH worked temporarily, but I need to
make that configuration permanent on the system. Do you have any
suggestions?
Warren Young wrote:
> Gary Anderson wrote:
>
>> when I try to run the examples, I get the error that libmysqlpp.so
>> cannot be found.
>
>
> You probably haven't installed the library yet. The examples and the
> library are in separate subdirectories, and Linux's dynamic library
> loader doesn't know where to find it. Linux will only look in a few
> very specific places for the library, and ../lib is not one of them. :)
>
> If you want to test the library before you formally install it, use a
> command like this:
>
> $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../lib ./simple1 localhost someuser hispassword
>
> That clues the dynamic loader that ../lib should also be searched for
> libraries.
>
> Otherwise, just install the library, and the examples should run
> without any jiggery-pokery.
>
