You will need to set the variables CHM_PYTHON_LIB_PATH, CHM_REGKEY and CHM_EXPIRY_DATE to be able to run the executable that you have linked with libChameleon.a. They give the registration information and the location of the python initialization files that Chameleon's python engine needs to load at runtime and the registration information.

The python library files are stored in a directory called python_lib in the Chameleon root directory. So if you had expanded Chameleon into /usr/local, the following would work for CHM_PYTHON_LIB_PATH.

$ export CHM_PYTHON_LIB_PATH=/usr/local/chameleon/python_lib

These python library files are text python files - the core python runtime is contained in libChameleon.a. We recommend that you do not try and load python libraries files from another third party source since there are likely to be version incompatibilities.

For more information on CHM_PYTHON_LIB_PATH, see Python Initialization Files.

See Registering Chameleon on Unix/Linux for more information about CHM_REGKEY and CHM_EXPIRY_DATE.

	You can save a lot of time setting these variables by editing your .profile file to set them up each time you log in. Creating a shell script to set them is also a good approach.