Building and running binaries using Cmake (on Linux) linking problem

I have built a server binary using cmake (and also make) for arm and x86 targets. I am able to run my server on arm using correct linking paths for RPATH, for example populating CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH. However when I try to run my x86 server it complains about not being able to find my databases. Would I be right in saying that CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH is used for libraries only and not to find files or databases. Is开发者_开发百科 there another cmake variable that is used to find files or databases at run time or by correctly populating CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH it should find files and databases as-well as libraries.

Thanks Paul.

You are correct that the CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH only deals with finding shared libraries. Specifically, setting the RPATH just gives the dynamic linker a list of directories to search for shared libraries.

If you want to find a file or database at runtime from within your application, you have to get the paths into your application some other way. This could be via a config file or hardcoded constants that are different for each platform.