Method

GIRepositoryRepositoryprepend_library_path

since: 2.80

Declaration

void
gi_repository_prepend_library_path (
  GIRepository* repository,
  const char* directory
)

Description

Prepends directory to the search path that is used to search shared libraries referenced by imported namespaces.

Multiple calls to this function all contribute to the final list of paths.

The list of paths is unique to repository. When a typelib is loaded by the repository, the list of paths from the repository at that instant is used by the typelib for loading its modules.

If the library is not found in the directories configured in this way, loading will fall back to the system library path (i.e. LD_LIBRARY_PATH and DT_RPATH in ELF systems). See the documentation of your dynamic linker for full details.

Available since: 2.80

Parameters

directory

Type: const char*

A single directory to scan for shared libraries.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.