[Paraview] Library Linking

[jcremy at itv.rwth-aachen.de]

Hello ParaView Developers,

I'm wondering how ParaView does the library linking.
The binary is just ~75k, so it definitely doesn't use static linking. But all over the net it says that precompiled binaries in linux need static linked libraries (which results in a huge binary file).
I see that ParaView comes with a bunch of libraries in the /lib folder. If I try this in my own project, it still doesn't work on other distributions. It seems as if the linker uses system libraries before the ones I supplied in my application directory.
I took a look at the ParaView code but didn't see anything that helped my to understand. So, how did you solve this?

Regards,
Christian Remy