Brooks Garrison wrote:
Volodya,
Thanks for the quick response :)
Generally, you don't have to specify that you are using shared libraries. In fact, on modern Linux, every library is shared. I recommend you add /usr/local/boost_1_41_0/prefix/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
I've seen this workaround mentioned by a few people, but a lot of the things I've read say that you should -never- change the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, so I'd rather just be able to specify a link option or something else to get it to link properly.
This is not a workaround. This is the standard way to make shared libraries installed into a custom location be available at runtime. I don't know which things you've read -- maybe they talk about more specific cases. Another alternative if to pass -R /usr/local/boost_1_41_0/prefix/lib option when compiling your library. You won't have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in that case, but passing the option every time can quickly become cumbersome. - Volodya