Jeff Mearing
Hi,
I am currently running Linux (Fedora), with python2.4 . I am keen to use boost to enable me to use python and C++ code together. I have built the Boost package using Bjam. All seemed to go good there following the build instruction for the hello world example. I then built the hello world example fine using the :
bjam -sTOOLS=gcc HelloTest
now if i run up python on the command line, and type:
import hello
into the python shell it fails to find the hello module, i then tried moving the hello.so file into :
/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload
the hello module is now found, however the 'libboost_python.so' cant be found, i guess because hello depends on this and it cannot be found. Which environment variable do i have to set to fix this link problem?
You need to get the directory of libboost_python.so into your LD_LIBRARY_PATH or into your ld.so file (I think that's what it's called; I forget -- there's some file with standard library search locations)... or you could just drop libboost_python.so into one of the standard library search locations like /usr/local/lib/ -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com