Installing a library

[TheQuirk]

I am trying to use the GNU scientific library (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/), but I don't have root access, so I did this:

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$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/gsl
$ make
$ make install


everything compiled fine, but now I am not sure how to use the library!

I've tried using the -L and -I options with gcc, but I am not getting anywhere. What is the right way to do this?

I know that I should know this by now, but, well, I don't.

edit: it seems like my user ranking (or whatever you call it) is wrong.

[Void Main]

In your ~/gsl/bin you should find a script that will print out the options you need:

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$ ~/gsl/bin/gsl-config --libs --cflags

[TheQuirk]

Thanks for the help!

I am still having some problems making it know where the shared library is.

This is what I have:

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glebzh@vminteractive:~/gsl_test$ ~/gsl/bin/gsl-config --libs --cflags -L/home/users/glebzh/gsl/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm -I/home/users/glebzh/gsl/include
glebzh@vminteractive:~/gsl_test$ gcc test.c -L/home/users/glebzh/gsl/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm -I/home/users/glebzh/gsl/include
glebzh@vminteractive:~/gsl_test$ ./a.out
./a.out: error while loading shared libraries: libgsl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


I tried looking up something things online (e.g. http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Pro ... aries.html), but I can't seem to do it right.

[Void Main]

Oh, it's a shared library. You'll need to make sure when you run the program that your library directory is in your library path. Normally that is done by putting the directory in /etc/ld.so.conf (or a conf file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d) and running ldconfig but you don't have root access so you'll have to make sure the directory containing the shared library you want to use is in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable before you run the program:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/users/glebzh/gsl/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[TheQuirk]

Great! It worked, thanks.