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To give some insight into the automatic procedure.

=== Building ===

get into the source code

 cd ~/exodus/trunk/exodus/exodus/exodus

Copy the headers to a standard include path

 #include files
 sudo cp exo*.h /usr/include
 sudo cp mv*.h /usr/include

Compile (Ignore three warnings in /boost/thread/tss.hpp included from mvdbpostgres.cpp)

 g++ -fPIC -c *.cpp
 gcc -fPIC -c *.c

Link and output the library file

 g++ -shared -o libexodus.so.1.0 *.o -lc -lpq -lboost_filesystem-gcc41-mt -lboost_regex-gcc41-mt\
  -lboost_thread-gcc41-mt -Wl,-soname,libexodus.so.1

=== Installing ===

This will place the libraries so that you can compile from anywhere on the system

 #copy to a standard library folder
 sudo cp libexodus.so.1.0 /usr/lib
 #register the library file with the linux library cache
 sudo ldconfig -v
 #create the pointer to version 1
 sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libexodus.so.1 /usr/lib/libexodus.so

=== Checking the Build ===

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-shobj/

 ldd libexodus.so.1.0|grep "not found"
 ldd -u libexodus.so.1.0

=== Testing libexodus ===

 g++ test.cpp -lexodus
 ./a.out
 ldd -u a.out