[dancfd]

Hello all,

I compiled a new boundary condition that I would like to use on a server, where there is no "$FOAM_USER_LIBBIN" directory. I have compiled and run the case without difficulty when the .so (shared object library) file is in the $FOAM_USER_LIBBIN directory, however now I want to move the .so file to my case directory and somehow tell OpenFOAM to find it there so that I can use it on the server. I tried a couple of approaches:

1. Changing the reference in the controlDict to

libs ("/home/<path to .so file>/lib<BCname>.so");

2. Changing the environment variable for FOAM_USER_LIBBIN:

export FOAM_USER_LIBBIN=/home/<path to .so file>

In either case, I get the same error from decomposePar:

--> FOAM Warning : 
    From function dlOpen(const fileName&, const bool)
    in file POSIX.C at line 1179
    dlopen error : libtimeVaryingUniformInletOutlet.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
--> FOAM Warning : 
    From function dlLibraryTable::open(const fileName&, const bool)
    in file db/dynamicLibrary/dlLibraryTable/dlLibraryTable.C at line 99
    could not load "libtimeVaryingUniformInletOutlet.so"

Where libtimeVaryingUniformInletOutlet.so is my library.

Any ideas on how to make this work? Thanks in advance.

Daniel

[dancfd]

It looks like my mistake was using a relative path in place of an absolute path in the libs ("<path goes here");

Works now.

[vasava]

I had similar problem and I could resolve it by simply copying relevant files from the lib folder in the FOAM_USER_LIBBIN to the lib folder inside the openFoam installation folder.

[Mahmoud Abbaszadeh]

Originally Posted by vasava

I had similar problem and I could resolve it by simply copying relevant files from the lib folder in the FOAM_USER_LIBBIN to the lib folder inside the openFoam installation folder.

thank you for your comment. This saved me a lot of time