Re: including header files in a C extension - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: including header files in a C extension
Date
Msg-id 1534748597.2593.2.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to including header files in a C extension  (TalGloz <glozmantal@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: including header files in a C extension
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TalGloz wrote:
> If I have an external library that I install using make install into the
> /usr/local/include/libraryname path by default and I want to include it in a
> C extension, the Makefile for the .so file includes the headers in
> /usr/local/include/libraryname path. 
> 
> Can I use #include <libraryname/header.h> when writing C/CPP code for my
> PostgreSQL C extension or do I have to install the external library in a
> different path than /usr/local/include/libraryname. I think that the
> external library headers are not getting included. 
> 
> I do manage to build the .so file without error.....

If you can build the extension, what is your problem?

Usually you use the LDFLAGS to tell "make" where to find your headers.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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