Cant find libboost_system.so.1.43.0 in eclipse using boost

Question

I am trying to run boost in eclipse,

under Library search path I have put: /home/etobkru/boost_1_43_0/boostBinaries/lib/ and under Libraries I have put all the libs, boost_system, etc.

The build is working without errors but when am trying to run the program I get an error:

error while loading shared libraries: libboost_system.so.1.43.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This file is under /home/etobkru/boost_1_43_0/boostBinaries/lib/ but I dont know how to make eclipse search in that directory.

Answer 1

You didn't say what OS you're running. But as root, try:

echo '/home/etobkru/boost_1_43_0/boostBinaries/lib/' >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/etobkru_boost.conf
ldconfig -v 

EDIT: If you don't have root, you can try:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/etobkru/boost_1_43_0/boostBinaries/lib/" my_command

LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a colon-separated list of extra directories.