cannot open shared object file

[DanBode]

I'm trying to write a sop that accesses PRman's pointcloud API. Everything seems to compile and link properly but when I try to bring the sop into Houdini I get this error:

libprman.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

In my makefile I have:

LIBDIRS = \

-L$(RMANTREE)/lib

LIBS = \

-lprman

is there something else I need to do to tell Houdini where this library is?

[edward]

libprman.so probably needs to be in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I'm assuming that you're on Linux.

[danb]

I'm trying to write a sop that accesses PRman's pointcloud API.

I don't know if it would be of any use but I just released some open source HDK code for loading & previewing prman point clouds into Houdini.

http://danbethell.github.com/rmanptcsop/

cheers,

dan

p.s. as to your specific question - yup (as Edward suggests) check your runtime library path (LD_LIBRARY_PATH or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on mac).

[DanBode]

Thanks guys, adding prman's lib directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH did the trick.

Dan,

The code you linked is actually really similar to what I'm working on. I'm building this as part of an independent learning project for a University class, so I'm going to hold off on looking at your code for a bit until I develop my own solution, but I'm really interested to see how you went about it. Thank you for letting me know about your project!