ldconfig (Linux)

Owned by Andy Erd
Mar 31, 2022
1 min read

may be used to use shared libraries from non-standard directories.

Assuming that a shared library is in the directory

/usr/local/lib/StepOver/NativeDeviceAPI-Linux-x64/

adding that path to a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/

echo  /usr/local/lib/StepOver/NativeDeviceAPI-Linux-x64/   >  /etc/ld.so.conf.d/StepOver.conf

and running ldconfig(8)

ldconfig

should create the necessary links and cache the most recent shared libraries in that directory
such that the dynamic linker/loader finds shared libraries inside there.