Starting the program with an external library in libreelec

rigelinorion · April 14, 2018 at 9:41 AM

Hello. I am trying to run a my program written in c that uses the libpigpio.so external library. Unfortunately, during startup the system can not find the library even though it is in the same directory as the program. I can not copy it to the lib directory (read only) . Is there any advice? Sorry for my GoogleEnglish

**vpeter** · April 14, 2018 at 10:28 AM

Try

Code

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./your_program

or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to some other path where you have libraries.

rigelinorion · April 14, 2018 at 10:50 AM

Thanks dude. It works. And one more question. How to add this system variable to autostart or something like that? I mean the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.

**vpeter** · April 14, 2018 at 11:40 AM

LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set automatically for addons so you could add your libraries to folder /storage/.kodi/addons/some_folder_name/lib.

But if you start your program from some script just set variable there.

rigelinorion · April 14, 2018 at 12:04 PM

II added the program as a service declaring the variable in the bash script and everything works fine. Now program starts up during the start as it should. Thank you again for your help.