[Xapian-discuss] Java-Binding - libxapian path

[Jim]

Martin Thelian wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Olly Betts schrieb:
>   
>> You don't say what platform you're using, but most Unix-like platforms
>> provided an environmental variable which you can set to a list of paths
>> to be searched for shared libraries.
>> [...]
>>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/where/xapian-core/really/is/lib
>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> <run java program>
>>
>> I believe you can also pass the option
>> -Djava.library.path=/path/to/where/xapian-core/really/is/lib when
>> invoking the java interpreter, but setting the environmental variable
>> works better 
>>   
>>     
>
>
> I've already tried using LD_LIBRARY_PATH before, but I did not realize 
> that eclipse does not recognize environment variables defined on the 
> command-line. If I specify it in the launch configuration it works. 
> Thanks :-)
>
>   
If you need to run it as a command line argument, you can try the following:

env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/where/xapian-core/really/is/lib eclipse

That'll do the same as setting it in the environment, but only do it for 
the one command, in case it causes problems later.

Jim.