Re: [OpenBabel-scripting] java bindings installation question

[Noel O'B. <bao...@gm...>]

2008/12/16 Nathan Rice <exn...@gm...>:
>> It shouldn't be necessary to to copy libopenbabel.so anywhere. Don't
>> the instructions in the readme describe how to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
>> point to the directory containing libopenbabel.so? Have you tried
>> this?
>
> I did try that, I have two copies of libopenbabel.so, one which was created
> and installed on initial make install of the core package (filesize ~12M),
> and a second one which was in my scripts/java/ directory (filesize ~2M).
> The one that is in my scripts/java directory is the one that has to be in
> the same directory as OBTest.  The LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the other one.
> Is this incorrect?

The two libopenbabel.so files are different (we should probably rename
the small one). As described in the README, the PATHs to both should
be added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH (in the order shown in the README - this
is important). It shouldn't be necessary to use LD_PRELOAD if these
are set correctly.

If this is done, it might help solve your problems with Eclipse also.
BTW, you are unlikely to get a useful response over at
openbabel-discuss, as very few people will be using the Java bindings,
which were only released in an experimental form in the last OB
release.

- Noel