Dub failing to detect Shared Libraries

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 8/6/2014 2:53 AM, Rishub Nagpal wrote:
> I am porting DerelictBGFX to linux, but I am having some problems. When
> I run the dub command in my example directory, I get the following error :
>
> derelict.util.exception.SharedLibLoadException at ../../../.dub/packages/derelict-util-1.0.2/source/derelict/util/exception.d(35):
> Failed to load one or more shared libraries:
>      libbgfx-shared-libRelease.so - libbgfx-shared-libRelease.so: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>      libbgfx-shared-libDebug.so - libbgfx-shared-libDebug.so: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>
> Here is the file I edited to detect those libaries :
> https://github.com/shrub77/DerelictBgfx/blob/master/source/derelict/bgfx/bgfx.d#L55
>
>
> Here is the dub.json :
> {
>      "name": "00-helloworld",
>
>      "sourcePaths": ["."],
>      "targetType": "executable",
>      "mainSourceFile": "helloworld.d",
>
>      "dependencies":
>      {
>          "gfm:sdl2": ">=1.1.4",
>          "derelict-bgfx": {"path": "../../", "version": "~master"}
>      }
> }
>
> Where should I put the *.so files so they can be detected properly by dub?
>
> Rishub
>

This has nothing to do with dub. You need to install the shared 
libraries manually so that Derelict can pick them up at run time. They 
need to be on the global library search path, whatever that may be for 
your system.

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