[poppler] How to set custom 'share' directory

[Jason Crain]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 03:34:36PM +0100, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Jason Crain <jason at inspiresomeone.us> wrote:
> 
> > On Mac and Linux the path is hardcoded at compilation time.  It's
> > generally in /usr/share/poppler on Linux.  Not sure what the standard is
> > on Mac.  On Windows it looks in \share\poppler relative to the
> > installation directory.
> 
> OK that is unfortunate. Would it be possible to introduce an option to
> set this path dynamically at runtime; e.g via an environment variable
> or via an api call?
> 
> In our case we statically link libpoppler with the R bindings on
> MacOS/Windows. This works very well for users, but there isn't a fixed
> installation directory; it depends on where the user installs the R
> package. So it would be really nice if there is a way to point
> libpoppler to the correct path when the R package gets loaded, rather
> than hardcoding this at build-time.
> 

I don't know how you use poppler in your project, but you may also have
the option of passing in the path when you construct the GlobalParams
object.