Why do I have to define LD_LIBRARY_PATH with an export every time I run my application?

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You should avoid setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your .bashrc. See “Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad“ for more information.

Use the linker option -rpath while linking so that the dynamic linker knows where to find libsync.so during runtime.

gcc ... -Wl,-rpath /path/to/library -L/path/to/library -lsync -o sync_test

EDIT:

Another way would be to use a wrapper like this

#!/bin/bash

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/library sync_test "$@"

If sync_test starts any other programs, they might end up using the libs in /path/to/library which may or may not be intended.

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