[Qt-interest] Setting library path before running?

[Brad Howes]

On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch wrote:

> william.crocker at analog.com wrote on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:37 AM:
> 
>> ...
>> We run our apps through a wrapper script which sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> first. 
> 
> You can also include the '.' (current directory) to the "build-in" library paths of the executable. Read about the -rpath linker option (and you can set this via qmake/*.pro files, too).


Note that some platforms, notably Solaris IIRC, do not follow relative links due to potential security issues. To be safe, use $PWD or $(pwd) to insert the current directory. Not sure of the qmake syntax, but I'm sure there is an appropriate variable to use to fetch it.

Brad

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