Adam's method worked. but thanks anyway for the instructions
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Krzysztof Walo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 22:14 +0530, Chamila Adhikarinayake wrote: > > Hi Again, > > > > I'm new to building applications by compiling the source in linux.up > > to now i managed to compile the code without any problem. > > (I'm using Gnote).I did ./autogen.sh, make , make install. every thing > > went fine. > > this may be dumb question. i want to know how to run the application > > after that.I found gnote in /usr/local/bin. is this the one i should > > run?. (I tried to run it by using ./gnote but i got "./gnote: error > > while loading shared libraries: libgnote-3.9.so.1: cannot open shared > > object file: No such file or directory" error message) > > I really want to do some coding but i don't know how to test it > > without running the app (or is there a different way to test the > > code). > > If i'm doing things wrong, can some one give the all the steps or > > give some links for some tutorials. > > > > thanks again for taking some time to help me > > > > Chamila > > Hi, > > If you haven't passed any options to ./autogen.sh, or ./configure, gnote > will install by default under /usr/local prefix, so binary will be > in /usr/local/bin and libraries in /usr/local/lib. > > If you just want hack on gnote, make install step is not necessary. You > can just compile the program, using make and run it as you did, from > build directory, using ./gnote. > > You got the error about missing libgnote library, because program loader > does not know where to look for this library. You need to tell him, by > modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > > So if you do ./autogen.sh and then make, if everything builds > succesfully, you should run compiled gnote using: > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/directory/where/libgnote/is ./gnote > > Krzysztof > >
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