modify Gobject load library path for python

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In order to troubleshoot my Python Gstreamer app, I cloned and added some debug statements to the Gstreamer core. Now I want Python to load my private build of gstreamer, instead of the standard one in /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0/. For the Gstreamer core, I modified LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but this has no effect. For the record, I'm running on 3.13.0-91-generic #138-Ubuntu.

I was able to do something similar for Gstreamer plugins using the env var GST_PLUGIN_PATH. I suspect that Gobject may use it's own environment variable to load libraries, but I haven't found it.

elboulangero · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-25 20:14:27Z

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gi.require_version('GIRepository', '2.0')
from gi.repository import GIRepository
GIRepository.Repository.prepend_library_path('/my/custom/path')

edited May 25, 2018 at 20:14

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Cimbali Over a year ago

I think you would want to .get_default() on GIRepository.Repository before calling the prepend

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