The library liblikwid` couldn't be found. Don't expect anything to work.

[albertomercurio]

Hello,

I was trying to install this package. I have first installed LIKWID from this link, and then I installed the Julia package as normal package.

I’m able to run LIKWID from terminal, for example the likwid-topology command. However, when I import it in Julia, it says

julia> using LIKWID
┌ Warning: The library `liblikwid`` couldn't be found. Don't expect anything to work.
│   liblikwid = "liblikwid"
└ @ LIKWID ~/.julia/packages/LIKWID/XtIXd/src/LIKWID.jl:96

[carstenbauer]

Hey, is the directory that contains liblikwid on LD_LIBRARY_PATH? If so, Julia should be able to find it.

It would be nice to have a way to overwrite the automatic detection and to manually provide the path to the library (via Preferences). Not sure when I will get to it though.

[albertomercurio]

It wasn’t on LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I added it using find /usr/local -name "liblikwid.so", finding the containing directory, and then doing echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH' >> ~/.bashrc.