Re: [Devel] Q: compilation->linking->running

[Nathan Hurst]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Peter Sakhno wrote:

> Hello, All!
> 
> I am new on Linux and I have problems with running program
> using FreeType.
> The library compiled and installed without any problems. After that i
> created a simple program to render strings using FreeType. And it also
> compiled without problems and even warnings. But! Whe i tried to run
> my program i got an error message:
> ./cmfttst: error in loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory

try running the program like this:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/the/path/to/freetype/lib/.libs/ ./cmfttst

where the LD_LIBRARY_PATH contains the directory which contains the
library.

njh