• krzaq (6/6) Sep 26 2014 I'd like to extend my program's functionality from plugins,
• Jacob Carlborg (7/13) Sep 26 2014 If you either enumerate all dynamic libraries in a directory, or a list
• krzaq (6/22) Sep 26 2014 That would be satisfactory to me, except for the linux-only part.
• Jacob Carlborg (5/8) Sep 26 2014 Dynamic libraries only work properly on Linux. This has nothing to do
• Cliff (4/13) Sep 26 2014 What is the nature of D's so/dll support? Or is there a page

"krzaq" <dlangmailinglist krzaq.cc> writes:

I'd like to extend my program's functionality from plugins, 
that'd be loaded by name (or not) as requested by the config 
file. Is it possible to throw in a few dlls/sos implementing 
those new modules into a directory and hope that they will be all 
loaded and available to Object.factory in the main executable?

I hope I'm clear enough.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 26/09/14 14:37, krzaq wrote:
 I'd like to extend my program's functionality from plugins, that'd be
 loaded by name (or not) as requested by the config file. Is it possible
 to throw in a few dlls/sos implementing those new modules into a
 directory and hope that they will be all loaded and available to
 Object.factory in the main executable?

 I hope I'm clear enough.

If you either enumerate all dynamic libraries in a directory, or a list 
from a config file, then use dlopen on all libraries. Then I think 
Object.factory should work. But dynamic libraries are basically only 
working on Linux.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

"krzaq" <dlangmailinglist krzaq.cc> writes:

On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 14:14:05 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
 On 26/09/14 14:37, krzaq wrote:
 I'd like to extend my program's functionality from plugins, 
 that'd be
 loaded by name (or not) as requested by the config file. Is it 
 possible
 to throw in a few dlls/sos implementing those new modules into 
 a
 directory and hope that they will be all loaded and available 
 to
 Object.factory in the main executable?

 I hope I'm clear enough.

 If you either enumerate all dynamic libraries in a directory, 
 or a list from a config file, then use dlopen on all libraries. 
 Then I think Object.factory should work. But dynamic libraries 
 are basically only working on Linux.

That would be satisfactory to me, except for the linux-only part.

In that case, I think I'll simply try to call filename() as the 
factory function in each library - that should work everywhere, 
right?

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2014-09-26 16:24, krzaq wrote:

 That would be satisfactory to me, except for the linux-only part.

 In that case, I think I'll simply try to call filename() as the factory
 function in each library - that should work everywhere, right?

Dynamic libraries only work properly on Linux. This has nothing to do 
with Object.factory.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

"Cliff" <cliff.s.hudson gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 15:45:11 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
 On 2014-09-26 16:24, krzaq wrote:

 That would be satisfactory to me, except for the linux-only 
 part.

 In that case, I think I'll simply try to call filename() as 
 the factory
 function in each library - that should work everywhere, right?

 Dynamic libraries only work properly on Linux. This has nothing 
 to do with Object.factory.

What is the nature of D's so/dll support?  Or is there a page
describing it?