Error loading shared libraries of boost

Question

I am working on centos. I installed boost version 1.45.0 on my system. The programs are compiled correctly but whenever I type command to see output it gives following error:

./a.out: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_thread.so.1.45.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Answer 1

In addition to the other answers, you can also set the DT_RPATH elf tag when linking your executable

-Wl,-rpath,/path/to/boost/libraries -L /path/to/boost/libraries -lboost_whatever

This way you don't have to remember to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH if the libraries are installed in a non-standard location.