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reply Andrew Wiley <arew264 gmail.com> writes:
One thing that would be very handy for a project I'm about to undertake would
be runtine libray loading. In C, I could use dlopen() and its related functions
to load a DLL and call functions in it. In C++, it was... sketchy and I never
really used it in much detail. Can D do this?
This would be a linux only project, and from what I've read, this sort of thing
tends to work more on linux. I could stick to C functions if necessary, but
that would give little benefit from just using straight C.
The structure of the project would just be an executable that would load up
libraries and call functions in them. All classes used in arguments between
libraries would be defined in the executable. The libraries would follow a
standardized interface.
May 17 2008
next sibling parent Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar igesund.net> writes:
Andrew Wiley wrote:


 One thing that would be very handy for a project I'm about to undertake
 would be runtine libray loading. In C, I could use dlopen() and its
 related functions to load a DLL and call functions in it. In C++, it
 was... sketchy and I never really used it in much detail. Can D do this?
 This would be a linux only project, and from what I've read, this sort of
 thing tends to work more on linux. I could stick to C functions if
 necessary, but that would give little benefit from just using straight C.
 The structure of the project would just be an executable that would load
 up libraries and call functions in them. All classes used in arguments
 between libraries would be defined in the executable. The libraries would
 follow a standardized interface.


Tango has tango.sys.SharedLibrary for this.

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
Dancing the Tango
May 17 2008
prev sibling parent reply "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:
"Andrew Wiley" <arew264 gmail.com> wrote in message 
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 One thing that would be very handy for a project I'm about to undertake 
 would be runtine libray loading. In C, I could use dlopen() and its 
 related functions to load a DLL and call functions in it. In C++, it 
 was... sketchy and I never really used it in much detail. Can D do this?
 This would be a linux only project, and from what I've read, this sort of 
 thing tends to work more on linux. I could stick to C functions if 
 necessary, but that would give little benefit from just using straight C.
 The structure of the project would just be an executable that would load 
 up libraries and call functions in them. All classes used in arguments 
 between libraries would be defined in the executable. The libraries would 
 follow a standardized interface.


If it's Linux-only, you've saved yourself a ton of trouble.  I've played 
around with SOs and D, and they seem to work great.  Classes, functions, 
exception handling etc. all seem to work fine when put in an SO.
May 18 2008
parent reply Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> writes:
Jarrett Billingsley schrieb:

 If it's Linux-only, you've saved yourself a ton of trouble.  I've played 
 around with SOs and D, and they seem to work great.  Classes, functions, 
 exception handling etc. all seem to work fine when put in an SO. 
 
 


With what compiler did you test that? DMD/GDC?
May 18 2008
parent "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:
"Frank Benoit" <keinfarbton googlemail.com> wrote in message 
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 Jarrett Billingsley schrieb:

 If it's Linux-only, you've saved yourself a ton of trouble.  I've played 
 around with SOs and D, and they seem to work great.  Classes, functions, 
 exception handling etc. all seem to work fine when put in an SO.


 With what compiler did you test that? DMD/GDC?


GDC.  I've heard there are issues with DMD and SOs.  I don't use DMD on 
Linux because, well, I've never gotten it to work correctly.
May 18 2008