library problem for xdotool

[jescu tudor]

Hi guys,     I download your script from http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/  I untar the archive, I run the command "make xdotool" , but when I try to run any command, like "./xdotool mousemove 500 1000"  I have an error:   ./xdotool: error while loading shared libraries: libxdo.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory    The error is because this library should be in a special directory ?  I want to tell you, that after compiling the C code with "make xdotool" I have no such library libxdo.so.0, only a library named libxdo.so. I rename this library, but the result was the same.      Can you please tell me, what I can do, because I wrealy need the script....    Thank you very much,         Tudor.

[Jordan Sissel]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:02 AM, jescu tudor <songo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi guys,     I download your script from http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/  I untar the archive, I run the command "make xdotool" , but when I try to run any command, like "./xdotool mousemove 500 1000"  I have an error:

Some changes were made recently that make xdotool depend on libxdo, rather than building statically. 

The latest version needs to be built this way:

make all install

If you want to install somewhere other than /usr/local, use:

make all install PREFIX=/new/path/to/install

The lib directory $(PREFIX)/lib needs to be known through ldconfig (or crle on Solaris).

If you just want to run from the build directory, without installing, you'll need to do:

% make xdotool libxdo.so

% ln -s libxdo.so  libxdo.so.0 

% LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./xdotool <command .... >

Hope this helps. 

-Jordan

./xdotool: error while loading shared libraries: libxdo.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory    The error is because this library should be in a special directory ?  I want to tell you, that after compiling the C code with "make xdotool" I have no such library libxdo.so.0, only a library named libxdo.so. I rename this library, but the result was the same.      Can you please tell me, what I can do, because I wrealy need the script....    Thank you very much,         Tudor.

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[erm...@gmail.com]

I have the same problem described here.

On ZorinOS (Ubuntu) the install was so easy and worked. xdotool is just MEGA EASY.
On the centos, i download, make all install and i got that:

xdotool error while loading shared libraries: libxdo.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've created a basic bash wrapper to add the LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib but didn't work.

What i did:

#!/bin/bash
# Simple wrapper to add a variable to the xdotool binary
# Original file is renamed to xdotool.orig

 

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib

xdotool.orig $@

I test this same script on the working and was OK.

I don't know what to do now.

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Mon, 18 May 2015 06:45:53 -0700 (PDT)
erm...@gmail.com wrote:
| I have the same problem described here.
|
| On ZorinOS (Ubuntu) the install was so easy and worked. xdotool is just
| MEGA EASY.
| On the centos, i download, make all install and i got that:
|
| > xdotool error while loading shared libraries: libxdo.so.2: cannot open
| > shared object file: No such file or directory
| >
|
| I've created a basic bash wrapper to add the LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib but
| didn't work.
|
| What i did:
|
| > #!/bin/bash
| > # Simple wrapper to add a variable to the xdotool binary
| > # Original file is renamed to xdotool.orig
| >
|
|
| > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib
| >
| > xdotool.orig $@
| >
|
| I test this same script on the working and was OK.
|
| I don't know what to do now.
|
|

You should 'export' the variable too. Many variables like this
are already exported, but if it isn't then xdotool (and the dynanic
linker) will not see it.

=======8<--------

#!/bin/bash
# Simple wrapper to add a variable to the xdotool binary
# Original file is renamed to xdotool.orig

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib

xdotool.orig $@

=======8<--------



In such scripts it is also a good idea to use a full path to the
"xdotool.orig" program, as a future security measure.



Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <A.Th...@griffith.edu.au>
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