link wpa_supplicant against non-default openssl version - linux

I want to compile wpa_supplicant using another version of openssl then the one installed on the build system.
To do this, I set these settings in the .config file:
CFLAGS += -I/custom-openssl/include
LIBS += -L/custom-openssl/lib
However, it is still linking against the default installed openssl version.

Your -L directive will be added to the end of the list of libraries to look for .so files during linking.
Instead, either control which directory the loader should look in while loading the binary (which can be compiled into the binary) or change the list of libraries to search using the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.

I also had to set LIBS_p. Everything else was fine.

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How do I get bjam to set include paths for OpenSSL headers and libraries on MSVC?

I'm trying to add code that uses OpenSSL to my bjam based program on MSVC, but I can't figure out how to get the include paths for OpenSSL added (without hard-coding the directory, which would only work on my machine). What I'm asking, is how to get bjam to search the set of system include paths. In CMake this would be done using find_package. What's the "standard" way for bjam?

CMake: Don't set rpath for a single library used in link

What I'd like to do is configure my CMakeLists file so that while building my project the linker uses a copy of a shared library (.so) that resides in my build tree to link the executable against but then does not set the rpath in the linked executable so that the system must provide the library when the loader requests it.
Specifically, I want to link against libOpenCL.so during build time on a build farm that doesn't have libOpenCL.so installed as a system library. To do this, libOpenCL.so is in the project build tree and referenced using an absolute path in the CMakeLists file. This absolute path is to ensure that if the system does happen to have libOpenCL.so installed then it is not used.
However, when running the final executable, CMake has added the absolute path to the rpath which stops the system version of libOpenCL.so being picked up by the library loader and used.
Seems simple but I can't quite figure it out.
Thanks!
I know this answer is super late. I faced the same requirement as yours.
Either we need is whitelist approach where we set CMAKE_BUILD_RPATH explicitly with what we need. Or we need a blacklist approach where we tell cmake, which RPATHs we don't want in the executable. Way to remove RPath from build tree is not documented yet: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/16825
The solution I took is:
Set RUNPATH instead of RPATH. You can achieve this by the statement:
SET(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "-Wl,--enable-new-dtags")
When RUNPATH is present, RPATH is ignored.
RUNPATH - same as RPATH, but searched after LD_LIBRARY_PATH, supported only on most recent UNIX
Then I can achieve the overriding the library using the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
According to the CMake Wiki this should not be a problem:
By default if you don't change any RPATH related settings, CMake will link the executables and shared libraries with full RPATH to all used libraries in the build tree. When installing, it will clear the RPATH of these targets so they are installed with an empty RPATH.
So you might try to simply install it?

How to set libs order in qmake?

We have a problem building out C++ software on Ubuntu Linux with qmake.
Problem is: we use some library, for example OpenCV, that can have different versions in one system.
qmake automatically add -L/usr/lib or -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu to g++ arguments, and contents of LIBS variables after it.
So there conflicts with different versions of OpenCV, the system version is used, but we need custom one, located at our build tree.
Are there any methods to change libs order in -L or something else to solve this problem?
There are two components to doing this:
First, you need to make sure to include them in your .pro file correctly. Do this with something like (this is from my current project):
LIBS += L${OPENCV_HOME}/lib \
-lopencv_core \
-lopencv_highgui \
You can replace the environment variable with whatever your path is. I've found it convenient to use environment variables like this because you also need header includes:
INCLUDEPATH += $$(OPENCV_HOME)/include/opencv2 \
$$(OPENCV_HOME)/include/opencv \
$$(OPENCV_HOME)/include
This allows you to create projects and build them correctly.
When you attempt to run them, however, you will likely run into all sorts of issues due to your app finding the wrong libraries (from system libraries like you say) - you need to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable correctly. In this case I have a launch script (you can do this in your user profile or elsewhere) which contains:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${OPENCV_HOME}/lib
Which then looks to that (as well as other) locations on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH first, before system libraries.
Another hack is to exploit the LIBS = $(SUBLIBS) ... part of the Makefile qmake writes.
Namely, invoke the generated Makefile with
make SUBLIBS=-L/path/to/your/opencv
I had the same issue which I fixed by setting QMAKE_LIBDIR to the lib directory of the build tree. QMake automatically added the system library path after this value, thus allowing to correctly detect the desired libraries:
QMAKE_LIBDIR = /path/to/desired/opencvlib
I have two OpenCV versions on my PC, one installed by default in /usr and another installed by compiling the sources in a custom dir (not /usr).
The first worked just fine with Qt, the other didn't. I struggled a lot trying to make the Qt Creator work with my OpenCV compiled sources. So I added -L/opencv_lib_path but it always said 'undefined reference' for some OpenCV API I was using. It simply doesn't want to look there for the libs, it will look in LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead. I tried adding my opencv_lib_path to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, no joy either.
The only thing that worked was Frodon's solution, just add this in your Qt .pro file and it will work.
QMAKE_LIBDIR = /path_to_installed_opencv/lib

using older version of a shared linux library while compiling C

I am trying to use libfann version 2.0.1 instead of the newest version 2.2.0, but could not figure out how to do so. Any thoughts on how to do that?
normally that works perfectly:
gcc fann_calculator.c -o run_fann_calculator -lfann -lm
where fann_calculator.c contains a program that calls a neural network.
Thanks
It depends upon where the two libraries sit. If they are installed in the same directory (e.g. both installed in /usr/lib/) you'll probably get the youngest one.
I suggest to carefully read the ld.so(8) and ldd(1) man pages. You certainly can trace what library is loaded (with e.g. the LD_DEBUG envirnonment variable). Don't forget to re-run ldconfig appropriately after library installation.
You could also play some LD_LIBRARY_PATH trick; for instance, set it to $HOME/lib:/usr/lib and install appropriate symlinks in your $HOME/lib/ to the precise library you want. For instance, you might do
ln -s /usr/lib/libfann.so.2.0.1 $HOME/lib/libfann.so.2
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/lib:/lib
then check with ldd run_fann_calculator that you get the expected [version of the] libfann library.
Don't forget to read the Program Library Howto. You might want to pass appropriate flags to ld such as -rpath. You may need to pass them using gcc, perhaps with Gcc Link Options such as -Wl

How to install boost on Linux with custom location of gcc?

My gcc compiler is at a custom location /my/path/hpgcc
I've downloaded the boost sources. Executed bootstrap.sh, but it fails because it runs with the default gcc.
Looking into it, I see that it fails at the first thing it does: building the Boost.Build engine:
gcc -o bootstrap/jam0 command.c compile.c debug.c expand.c glob.c hash.c hdrmacro.c headers.c jam.c jambase.c jamgram.c lists.c make.c make1.c newstr.c option.c output.c parse.c pathunix.c pathvms.c regexp.c rules.c scan.c search.c subst.c timestamp.c variable.c modules.c strings.c filesys.c builtins.c pwd.c class.c native.c md5.c w32_getreg.c modules/set.c modules/path.c modules/regex.c modules/property-set.c modules/sequence.c modules/order.c execunix.c fileunix.c
(fails because executed with the default gcc, and not my gcc version).
I've tried to change the gcc path in the user-config.jam file, but it doesn't help. Probably because the Boost.Build's build script boost_1_47_0/tools/build/v2/engine/build.sh doesn't use user-config.jam, and just uses the default locations.
Any solution?
Add the line:
using gcc : : /my/path/hpgcc ;
to user-config.jam. user-config.jam will usually be in /path/to/boost/tools/build/v2/, but you can put a custom user-config.jam or site-config.jam in any of the places listed here.
/my/path/hpgcc should be the full path to the g++ executable.
EDIT (Igor Oks) : What eventually solved the problem is that I edited boost_1_47_0/tools/build/v2/engine/build.sh to make it use my custom gcc.
We do this in our build environment by simply defining the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables to pickup our desired GCC first.

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