How to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in perl script

[James]

Instead of exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH from command-line,
is there a way to do this inside the perl script?

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib perl-script
works, but I want the scriipt takes care of this inside.

TIA
James

[Stachu 'Dozzie' K.]

Post by James
Instead of exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH from command-line,
is there a way to do this inside the perl script?
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib perl-script
works, but I want the scriipt takes care of this inside.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH is taken into an account mainly when ELF binary (here:
Perl interpreter) is executed (and later when it dlopen()s an ELF
object), so you should set it before script is executed at all.

Actually, you could try to re-execute script if appropriate path isn't
present in LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.

[Barry Margolin]

Post by James
Instead of exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH from command-line,
is there a way to do this inside the perl script?
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib perl-script
works, but I want the scriipt takes care of this inside.

$ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}="/usr/local/ssl/lib";

Note that this will only affect external programs run by the script, it
won't link perl itself with the libraries in that directory.