How can LD_LIBRARY_PATH be changed within CMake?

Question

I have a local shared library which is not in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I want to run my executable, but since it cannot find the shared library in the system folders, it outputs \"

Answer 1

You can set the runtime shared library search path using the -rpath linker option:

SET(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS 
          "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib")