Re: Does Emacs use -ltree-sitter? yes

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:

>> From: Tomas Nordin <[email protected]>
>> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:02:18 +0000
>> 
>> I just built and installed tree-sitter library from a clone of
>> https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter.git by running make and make
>> install.
>> 
>> It installs to /usr/local/{lib,include}, for example 
>> 
>> /usr/local/lib/libtree-sitter.so.0.27
>> 
>> When re-building emacs on that, I get an error
>> 
>> ./temacs: error while loading shared libraries: libtree-sitter.so.0.27: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> 
>> I tried git clean -fdx but got the failure repeated. Should I provide a
>> flag to include that /usr/local/lib location? I don't build in any
>> special way, no special configuration flags.
>
> If your linker does not by default look in /usr/local/lib, then yes,
> you need to configure Emacs with 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib' and
> probably the same for CFLAGS.  What do the below commands produce?
>
>   $ gcc -print-file-name=libtree-sitter.so.0.27
>   $ gcc -print-file-name=libtree-sitter.so
>
> If GCC knows how to find it, you should see a full absolute file name
> in response, not just the basename.

It shows only the basename. For some reason I tried with just

    ./configure 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib'

and it was enough it seems, built fine. Thanks.