DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH etc

FROM : Neil Williams
DATE : Sat Apr 23 17:27:27 2005

Hi All

Please help as I am almost going insane :-(

FYI I have been around the houses a few times on
this one. I've looked at various postings and web
pages recommended on this list but I cannot find a
good solution. The articles etc by ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch
and Robert Chin are excellent but don't really
deal with my problem.

I have a set of libraries which I want to bundle
with my application so that it is a drag and drop
install. Unfortunately, the libs are precompiled
and I have no access to the source code.

I know I could do an almighty hack with
install_name _tool  but I have about 40 libraries
and there are lots of interdependencies :-( I
really am hoping there is a better way.

One idea I (probably stupid) idea is to set
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime. Is this possible?

Best regards

Neil Williams