[FLASH-USERS] loading shared libraries

[Brian O'Shea]

Hi Stephen,

You have to set the environmental variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point  
toward your hdf5 library directory.  Just prepend the path to your  
HDF5 libs to that variable and you should be all set.

Regards,
Brian

On Aug 1, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Stephen Brian Amsel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> With a lot of help I got Flash to compile on my computer, but have  
> run into an error when trying to test it with the Sedov solver. I get
> " error while loading shared libraries: libhdf5.so.7: cannot open  
> shared object file: No such file or directory "
> I've tried copying all shared objects from HDF5 into the Object  
> directory. I also gave HDF5 its own directory, wiping all references  
> from the default library and include directories and then recompiled  
> Flash. I tried looking up where Flash looks for that file, but the  
> filename only appears, apparently, in the executable itself and not  
> explicitly in the sourcecode (I guess part of the code is generated  
> by script). Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
>
> (In case it matters, I'm trying to get Flash to run on my desktop so  
> I can fiddle with it and learn how it works without waiting through  
> a cluster's queue and tying up its resources every time I want to  
> try something new.)
>
> Have a nice day!
> -Stephen