missing shared library error

Hello,

I'm doing this on a Fedora 15 Linux system with Ogre3d from the official repository which is version 1.7. I tried both using the bullet library from the repositories and compiling OgreBullet form the svn and also manually compiling bullet and OgreBullet from svn.

The problem is that I try to get a simple test application with OgreBullet up running. It compiles without error using this command:


g++ TutorialApplication.cpp BaseApplication.cpp -I /usr/include/OGRE/ -I /usr/include/OIS/ -I /usr/local/include/OgreBullet/Collisions/ -I /usr/local/include/OgreBullet/Dynamics/ -I /usr/local/include/bullet/ -lOgreMain -lOIS -lBulletDynamics -lBulletCollision -lOgreBulletCol -lOgreBulletDyn -lConvexDecomposition -o ogreapp


However, when I try start the resulting binary I get:


./ogreapp
./ogreapp: error while loading shared libraries: libOgreBulletCol.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


I've found that someone else on this forum had this problem before (http://www.ogre3d.org/addonforums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=13119), but the solution he suggested appears to be to just include and link against bullet which I'm already doing.
So, any help is really appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Don't know what default paths for ld are on Fedora 15 Linux system but if /etc/ld.so.conf contains /usr/local/lib then running ldconfig should resolve you problem.

Otherwise you could either:

a) add rpath and library path to your build command -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib
b) install OgreBullet to /usr with
./configure -prefix=/usr ...
make clean
make
..

Using your a) suggestion got rid of the missing library error. Now I actually get some runtime error (but that's ok since I'm just messing around with the source). But I don't really understand why that helped because I would think that if there were a missing library the linker would complain during compilation and not when the binary has already been created. Anyway, thanks a lot for your help.

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_ld.htm (Section -rpath-link DIR)
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-H ... aries.html (Section 3.2. How Libraries are Used)
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/rpath.html

Thanks, that cleared things up.