[GRASS-dev] Calling GRASS from outside: cannot open shared object file

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Moritz Lennert
<mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> On 09/05/14 10:59, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I get it running (on Linux, winGRASS untested) when setting up the
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH at system level:
>>
>> su
>> echo "`grass71 --config path`/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/grass71.conf
>> ldconfig
>> exit
>>
>> # run as normal user:
>> python python_test_ctypes.py
>> ...
>> precip_annual at user1
>> /home/neteler/grassdata/nc_spm_08_grass7
>>
>> Works.
>> The issue is that we cannot easily enforce the users to add a file in
>> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ since it requires admin rights.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>
>
> Doesn't this work:
>
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH= export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(grass71 --config path)/lib
> python python_test_ctypes.py

Yes this works:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(grass71 --config path)/lib
python python_test_ctypes.py

also this:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`grass71 --config path`/lib
python python_test_ctypes.py

nice, I could have tried that earlier :)

Now we just need similar instructions for Windows and MacOSX.

Markus