Fixing installation for operating systems with lib and lib64 directories

Signed-off-by: Adriano Marto Reis <adrianomarto@gmail.com>

Author: adrianomarto

buildhelp/cyclone_search.py

@@ -45,18 +45,22 @@ def good_directory(directory: Path):
     if not include_path.exists() or not bindir.exists():
         return
 
+    # Define the libraries directory based on where the CycloneDDS library
+    # has been installed. That is required because CMake overrides the libraries
+    # directory definition 'lib' with 'lib64' depending on the operating system.
     libdir = dir / 'lib'
-    if not libdir.exists():
-        libdir = dir / 'lib64'
-        if not libdir.exists():
-            return None
-
     if platform.system() == 'Windows':
         ddsc_library = bindir / "ddsc.dll"
     elif platform.system() == 'Darwin':
         ddsc_library = libdir / "libddsc.dylib"
     else:
         ddsc_library = libdir / "libddsc.so"
+        if not ddsc_library.exists():
+            libdir = dir / 'lib64'
+            ddsc_library = libdir / "libddsc.so"
+
+    if not libdir.exists():
+        return None
 
     if not ddsc_library.exists():
         return None

cyclonedds/internal.py

@@ -53,10 +53,11 @@ def _loader_cyclonedds_home_gen(name):
         If CYCLONEDDS_HOME is set it is required to be valid and must be used to load.
     """
     def _loader_cyclonedds_home():
-        if "CYCLONEDDS_HOME" not in os.environ:
-            return None
-
-        return _load(os.path.join(os.environ["CYCLONEDDS_HOME"], name))
+        if "CYCLONEDDS_HOME" in os.environ:
+            path = os.path.join(os.environ["CYCLONEDDS_HOME"], name)
+            if os.path.exists(path):
+                return _load(path)
+        return None
     return _loader_cyclonedds_home
 
 
@@ -93,6 +94,7 @@ def _loader_install_path():
 _loaders_per_system = {
     "Linux": [
         _loader_wheel_gen(["..", "cyclonedds.libs"], ".so"),
+        _loader_cyclonedds_home_gen(f"lib64{os.sep}libddsc.so"),
         _loader_cyclonedds_home_gen(f"lib{os.sep}libddsc.so"),
         _loader_on_path_gen("libddsc.so"),
         _loader_install_path