From f6d8d38e4837e063a412f99e03195478b6b8ef07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: techmetx11 <techmetx11@disroot.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:00:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add a new environment variable for custom libgccjit path

---
 Readme.md  | 1 +
 src/lib.rs | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index 9a7c624c9bc..5aae48db229 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ $ LIBRARY_PATH="[gcc-path value]" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="[gcc-path value]" rustc +$(ca
  * _**CG_GCCJIT_DUMP_EVERYTHING**_: Enables dumping of all intermediate representations and passes.
  * _**CG_GCCJIT_KEEP_INTERMEDIATES**_: Keeps intermediate files generated during the compilation process.
  * _**CG_GCCJIT_VERBOSE**_: Enables verbose output from the GCC driver.
+ * _**CG_GCCJIT_SEARCH_PATH**_: Add a custom library path to look for `libgccjit.so` in
 
 ## Extra documentation
 
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 7e22d6db50c..6e7eab2b326 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ mod type_of;
 use std::any::Any;
 use std::ffi::CString;
 use std::fmt::Debug;
-use std::fs;
 use std::ops::Deref;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
+use std::{env, fs};
 
 #[cfg(feature = "master")]
 use gccjit::TargetInfo;
@@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ impl CodegenBackend for GccCodegenBackend {
                     lib_path.join(sess.target.llvm_target.as_ref()).join("libgccjit.so");
                 paths.push(llvm_target_path);
             }
+            if let Ok(custom_path) = env::var("CG_GCCJIT_SEARCH_PATH").as_deref() {
+                paths.push(PathBuf::from(custom_path).join("libgccjit.so"));
+            }
+
             paths
         }