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Not able to run PAPI code with papi.h, error : cannot open shared object file in GCC

I am trying to learn papi api to monitor the performance of various CPU events. To begin with, I ran one of the sample snippets that PAPI official documentation mentions. Below is the code 

#include<stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include "papi.h"

#define NUM_EVENTS 2
int main()
{
int Events[NUM_EVENTS] = {PAPI_TOT_INS, PAPI_TOT_CYC};
int num1=1234;
int num2=9876;
int res1,res2;
long_long values[NUM_EVENTS];
/* Start counting events */
if (PAPI_start_counters(Events, NUM_EVENTS) != PAPI_OK)
    printf("\nerror!!!\n");
    //handle_error(1);
/* Do some computation here*/

res1=num1*num2;
printf("\n%d",res1);
/* Read the counters */
if (PAPI_read_counters(values, NUM_EVENTS) != PAPI_OK)
    printf("\nerror!!!\n");
/* Do some computation here */

res2=num1+num2;
printf("\n%d",res2);
/* Stop counting events */
if (PAPI_stop_counters(values, NUM_EVENTS) != PAPI_OK)
    printf("\nerror!!!\n");
 return 0;
}

I compiled it with the include files path as below 

gcc -I/home/sabarna/Desktop/DEV/clockCycle/papi/src/ papi_try1.c -L/home/sabarna/Desktop/DEV/clockCycle/papi/src/ -lpapi

While executing a.out I am getting the error 

/a.out: error while loading shared libraries: libpapi.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried fixing this by exporting LD_PRELOAD but that didn't work. Could anyone please help me out? I have never used PAPI api before, so I am not sure whether I am compiling it in the right way.

Solution

  • There is no reason to pre-load that library, try defining/modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH rather than LD_PRELOAD

    -L/home/sabarna/Desktop/DEV/clockCycle/papi/src/ seems to indicate you compiled but do not installed it

    if you set LD_xxx with /home/sabarna/Desktop/DEV/clockCycle/papi/src/ that means the lib must be in the directory /home/sabarna/Desktop/DEV/clockCycle/papi/src/ not elsewhere, so /home/sabarna/Desktop/DEV/clockCycle/papi/src/libpapy.so and/or /home/sabarna/Desktop/DEV/clockCycle/papi/src/libpapy.so.<number> exist